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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?...
A MODERN FABLE Aesop's fables and other traditional children's stories involve allegory far too subtle for the youth of today.
Children need an updated message with contemporary circumstance and plo...
A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at the death of composer Edward MacDowell.
She played the elegy for the pianist Josef Hoffman, then asked his opinion....
A novel approach is to remove all power from the system, which removes most system overhead so that resources can be fully devoted to doing nothing.
Benchmarks on this technique are promising; treme...
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. Why is this?" The...
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 perceive that one computer company is much larger than all others.
It towers above its competition like a giant among dwarfs....
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. It issues a multitude...
A novice programmer was once assigned to code a simple financial package.
A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

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