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• A well-used door needs no oil on its hinges. A swift-flowing stream does not grow stagnant.
  Neither sound nor thoughts can travel through a vacuum....
• There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors.
  Look at how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit, "I have my own operating system and file storage device....
• Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said
  You are the Yin and I am the Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money....
• Thus spake the master programmer: "Without the wind, the grass does not move.
  Without software, hardware is useless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• 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...
• The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
  The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages....
• Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void.
  Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion....
• A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a strings of pearls.
  The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout....
• 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...