"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ier98d$1ec...@digitalmars.com... > Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 13:37:55 Walter Bright wrote: >>> retard wrote: >>>> "Book: You must always do A and should also prefer choices like B." >>>> >>>> "Me: why?" >>>> >>>> "Book: Just do it, don't think." >>> A novice follows the rules because he is told to. >>> >>> A master follows the rules because he understands them. >>> >>> A guru breaks the rules because the rules don't always apply. >> >> So, is that a (possibly paraphrased) quote or just highly quotable? > > I heard it a very long time ago, and I do not know where it originated, or > even if it wasn't just coined by my friends.
Sounds a bit Zen Buddhist or maybe Taoist to me.