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Master Foo and the Methodologist
When Master Foo and his student Nubi journeyed among the sacred sites, it was
the Master's custom in the evenings to offer public instruction to Unix
neophytes of the towns and villages in which they stopped for the night.
On one such occasion, a methodologist was among those who gathered to listen.
“If you do not repeatedly profile your code for hot spots while tuning, you
will be like a fisherman who casts his net in an empty lake,” said Master Foo.
“Is it not, then, also true,” said the methodology consultant, “that if you do
not continually measure your productivity while managing resources, you will be
like a fisherman who casts his net in an empty lake?”
“I once came upon a fisherman who just at that moment let his net fall in the
lake on which his boat was floating,” said Master Foo. “He scrabbled around in
the bottom of his boat for quite a while looking for it.”
“But,” said the methodologist, “if he had dropped his net in the lake, why was
he looking in the boat?”
“Because he could not swim,” replied Master Foo.
Upon hearing this, the methodologist was enlightened.
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