- Artificial Intelligence Koans (Contributed by scott@vidox.com) A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly: You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong. Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. One day a student came to Moon and ...www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Lighter/aikoans.html