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• 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....
• A novice asked the master: "I perceive that one computer company is much larger than all others.
  It towers above its competition like a giant among dwarfs....
• There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs.
  A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs....
• The Magician of the Ivory Tower brought his latest invention for the master programmer to examine.
  The magician wheeled a large black box into the master's office while the master waited in silence....
• 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: "In the east there is a great tree-structure that men call 'Corporate Headquarters'.
  It is bloated out of shape with vice-presidents and accountants....
• A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day.
  The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game....
• 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....