[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.
"Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 122), March 1976.
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