Top ten things most likely to be said by a Buddhist programmer

  1. Coding is suffering.
  2. Suffering is embodied in the endless wheel of the product life-cycle.
  3. You cannot escape the wheel of the product life-cycle, because your mind is clouded by desire for a better framework.
  4. Users cannot escape the wheel of the product life-cycle, because their minds are clouded by desire for features.
  5. To be free of suffering, one must first understand boolean non-duality: The bit is not one, and the bit is not not-one. 
  6. The spec is forever like sand between your fingers. Yet each grain of it is a precious gift, inviting you to develop compassion for designers and managers.
  7. Debugging is negative, and unnecessary. Bugs are precious gifts, inviting the QA team and the users to develop compassion for programmers.
  8. It’s fun to set an array of flags, and let them flap like prayers in the wind. 
  9. If you comment your code, it will bring good karma to you in your next release.
  10. To reach enlightenment, pipe your mental I/O to /dev/null

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