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Re: New quotes for Fri Nov 8
sethf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sethf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 8 08:06:46 1991
But that koan doesn't quite work as a koan. "You cannot fix ...
with no understanding of what is going wrong.". Think about it for a
moment. Whatever action under discussion doesn't work for the novice,
because the novice doesn't understand. It's not necessarily a problem
(in terms of consistency) that it works for the master, as presumably
the master has an understanding of what is going wrong. It's not a
paradox, but an assertion that one must be in touch with the
hackerverse. Maybe the physical explanation is quantum bogodynamics
(from the jargon file).
