An old favourite:
For three days and nights the Java master did not emerge from his cubicle. On the fourth day the monks of the temple sent a novice to inquire after him.
The novice found the master at his whiteboard, contemplating a single dataflow diagram. The novice recognized it as a minor component of the vast system that the monks were contracted to maintain. Politely, the novice asked what the master was working on.
The master replied: “There is a defect, and I am considering the best way to repair it.”
The novice said, “You preach often about the importance of setting priorities. How, then, can you obsess about something so tiny and unimportant?”
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