richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/25/89)
A novice was trying to fix a broken Amiga by turning the
power off and on. Dave, seeing what the student was doing
spoke sternly: "You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling
it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Dave put gas
in the filler spout. The machine worked.
___________
One day a student came to Theo and said, "I understand how to
make a better Wildcard expander. We must make sure all
gas pedals are on the same side. Theo patiently told the student
the following story:
"One day a student came to Theo and said, "I understand how
to make a better wildcard expander...
___________
In the days when Karl was as a novice Peter once came to him as
he sat hacking at the A500. "What are you doing?", asked
Peter. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to expand
wildcards" Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Karl.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how UNIX does it."
Peter shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Karl
asked his teacher. "So the room will be empty." At that
moment, Karl was enlightened.
___________
A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature of AmigaDOS,
came to Chuck. As they spoke an AEGIS system hacker walked by.
"Is it true," asked the student, "that the DM has many of the same
wildcards as AmigaDOS?" Almost before the student had finished his
question, Chuck shouted, "FOO!", and hit the student with a
stick.
___________
A disciple of another wildcard expansion technique once came
to Steve as he was eating his morning meal. "I would like
to give you this personality test," said the outsider, "because
I want you to be happy." Steve took the paper that was offered
him and put it into the toaster: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."
___________
A man from UNIX walked across the mountains to CBMVAX to see the
Master, Dave. When he arrived, the Master was nowhere to be
found. "Where is the wise one named Haynie?", he asked a passing
student. "Ah," said the student, "you have not heard. He has
gone on a pilgrimage across the mountains to the temple of UNIX to
seek out new disciples." Hearing this, the man was Enlightened.
___________
A famous wildcard expander noticed Monty sitting in front
of an A3000, trying to edit a complex C expression via
browser. Wanting to help, the wildcard expander clicked one of
the icons in the display with the mouse, and asked "what do you see?"
Very earnesty, Monty replied "I see a cursor." The wildcard
expander then quickly pressed ^AA at the front of the keyboard,
while simultaneously hitting Monty over the head with a thick RKM.
Monty was then enlightened.
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