Zooko's triangle posits that you can choose two of three properties for names / identifers, but not all three. You might say that it describes the challenge of accommodating two very different ways of 'thinking' about names — the computer way and the human way.

Zooko's triangle posits that you can choose two of three properties for names / identifers, but not all three. You might say that it describes the challenge of accommodating two very different ways of 'thinking' about names — the computer way and the human way.