Alice asks the Cheshire Cat which way she should go, but the Cat responds that it depends on where she wants to go. Alice says she doesn't care where, so the Cat tells her it doesn't matter which way she goes as long as she walks long enough to get somewhere. The exchange illustrates that having a destination in mind is important for determining the best way to get there.

1. “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to go.”
“I don’t much care where.”
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
“...so long as I get somewhere.”
“Oh, you’re sure you do that, if only you walk long enough.”
— Alice and the Cheshire Cat
Destination and Wayfinding

2. “A complex system that works is
invariably found to have emerged
from a simple system that
worked. The inverse proposition
also appears to be true: A
complex system designed from
scratch never works and cannot
be made to work. You have to
start over, beginning with a
working simple system.”
— John Gall
Emergence

3. Snowcruiser Avoidance