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(Rewritten from memory) The apprentice noticed his machine was malfunctioning. He consulted his sensei who suggested to simply turn the machine off and back on
by accrual 6y ago
(Rewritten from memory)
The apprentice noticed his machine was malfunctioning. He consulted his sensei who suggested to simply turn the machine off and back on.
The apprentice tried this many times yet the machine still did not work correctly.
Then the sensei turned the machine off and back on. It worked.
- LukeShu 6y ago> A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. > Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” > Knight turned the machine off and on. > The machine worked. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html