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• The master programmer moves from program to program without fear.
  No change in management can harm him. He will not be fired, even if the project is cancelled....
• Thus spake the master programmer: "You can demonstrate a program for a corporate executive, but you can't make him computer literate.
  -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• Thus spake the master programmer: "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
  -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• A manager was about to be fired, but a programmer who worked for him invented a new program that became popular and sold well.
  As a result, the manager retained his job. The manager tried to give the programmer a bonus, but the programmer refused it, saying, "I wrote the program because I though it was an interesting concept, and thus I expect no reward....
• Thus spake the master programmer: "A well-written program is its own heave
  a poorly-written program is its own hell." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• Thus spake the master programmer: "When program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes.
  -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• In the east there is a shark which is larger than all other fish.
  It changes into a bird whose winds are like clouds filling the sky....
• Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.
  -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• A novice asked the Master: "Here is a programmer that never designs, documents, or tests his programs.
  Yet all who know him consider him one of the best programmers in the world....