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• There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs.
  A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs....
• 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....
• 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 programmer in the world....
• 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 bests programmer in the world....
• A novice programmer was once assigned to code a simple financial package.
  The novice worked furiously for many days, but when his master reviewed his program, he discovered that it contained a screen editor, a set of generalized graphics routines, and artificial intelligence interface, but not the slightest mention of anything financial....
• Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs.
  This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice....
• A novice asked the master: "I have a program that sometimes runs and sometimes aborts.
  I have followed the rules of programming, yet I am totally baffled....
• A master was explaining the nature of the Tao to one of his novices, "The Tao is embodied in all software -- regardless of how insignificant," said the master.
  "Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?" asked the novice....
• A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices.
  "The Tao is embodied in all software -- regardless of how insignificant," said the master....