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Comment by headcanon

9 years 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/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171

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