parking here for a future exploration of “taste”, some quoted concepts that tell a story of their own:

Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get enormously greater sums of utility from any sacrifice of others than these others lose— Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974

“You know, I was stumped one day when a little boy asked, “do you draw Mickey Mouse?” I had to admit I do not draw any more. “Then you think up all the jokes and ideas?” “No,” I said, “I don’t do that.” Finally, he looked at me and said, “Mr. Disney, just what do you do?”

“Well,” I said, “sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody.” I guess that’s the job I do. I certainly don’t consider myself a businessman, and I never did believe I was worth anything as an artist.” — Walt Disney, The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney, National Geographic August 1963

Uniquely, Taylor had no formal academic training or research experience in computer science; Severo Ornstein likened Taylor to a “concert pianist without fingers“, a perception reaffirmed by historian Leslie Berlin: “Taylor could hear a faint melody in the distance, but he could not play it himself. He knew whether to move up or down the scale to approximate the sound, he could recognize when a note was wrong, but he needed someone else to make the music.“— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scientist)

“There can be supremely ranked mathematicians who cannot calculate.
One could be a great calculator without having an inkling of mathematics.”— Novalis, Fragments ~1798

“in proportion as facts are multiplied, man learns to class them, and reduce them to more general facts, at the same time that the instruments and methods for observing them, and registering them with exactness, acquire a new precision: in proportion as relations more multifarious between a greater number of objects are discovered, man continues to reduce them to relations of a wider denomination, to express them with greater simplicity, and to present them in a way which may enable a given strength of mind, with a given quantity of attention, to take in a greater number than before: in proportion as the understanding embraces more complicated combinations, a simple mode of announcing these combinations renders them more easy to be treated.

Hence it follows that truths, the discovery of which was accompanied with the most laborious efforts, and which at first could not be comprehended but by men of the severest attention, will after a time be unfolded and proved in methods that are not above the efforts of an ordinary capacity.” — Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet — Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, Tenth Epoch, “The Future Progress of Mankind.” 1794