eurekafag — A novice was trying to fix a broken ...

eurekafag 30.01.2011 05:25 148640270612963639998498

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.