“Technique?” said the programmer turning from his terminal, “What I follow is Tao - beyond all techniques! When I first began to program I would see before me the whole problem in one mass. After three years I no longer saw this mass. Instead, I used subroutines. But now I see nothing. My whole being exists in a formless void. My senses are idle. My spirit, free to work without plan, follows its own instinct. In short, my program writes itself. True, sometimes there are difficult problems. I see them coming, I slow down, I watch silently. Then I change a single line of code and the difficulties vanish like puffs of idle smoke. I then compile the program. I sit still and let the joy of the work fill my being. I close my eyes for a moment and then log off.”
“技术？”这位程序员从他的终端转过身来，“我追随的是道——它超乎了一切技术！当我刚开始编程时，我看到的是一大块的程序。三年之后，我看到的不再是一大块，而是子过程组成的。现在，我什么都看不到了。我的存在也只是无形虚空。我感到很悠闲，我不需要计划，自由地去工作，如同遵循着我的灵魂本性。简而言之，就像是我的程序自己在写那样。当然，有时也会遇到一些难题。看到它们，我会放慢速度，静静观察。接着我改了一行代码，问题瞬间烟消云散。然后我编译这个程序，并坐着上享受工作带来的喜悦充