To stop with “Everything is an object” would be like a carpenter or an architect summing up houses by saying “Everything is a room.” There would be the big room with high-voltage outlets and a sink, where you might cook. There would be the small room upstairs, where you might sleep. It would take pages to describe an ordinary house. People who build or use houses realize that rooms follow patterns, patterns with special names, such as “kitchen.” This language enables economical discussion of house design.
