His take was not really "novel" however, John McCarthy said basically the same thing multiple times in the 90s and maybe even 80s? He would say something along the lines of "If we ever get to an algorithm that expresses general intelligence, we will be able to write that in one or two pages of a manual. Such a book will still be rather long and the rest of the pages will be about how we got to that algorithm and why it took us so long".