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• 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 novice asked the master: "I have a program that sometime runs and sometimes aborts.
  I have followed the rules of programming, yet I am totally baffled....
• 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 went into the master's cubicle and saw a new computer sitting upon the master's desk.
  "What is that computer?" asked the novice. The master placed his hand upon a small box that was connected to the computer by a wire....
• 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....
• There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs.
  A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs....
• Thus spake the master programmer: "When the program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes.
  -- The Tao of Programming...
• A student asked the master for help... does this program run from the Workbench?
  The master grabbed the mouse and pointed to an icon....