Once upon a time ... I wrote some program but later found it did lots of needless calculations. I removed the respective part of the program, but instead of running faster it slowed down. When I complained to a friend of mine, who had been programming for decades, he looked down on me the way the Great Incas had been looking down on their subjects and said, "This is what usually happens."
Come to think of it, this is what usually happens not only to our programs but to ourselves. Oh, how often our efforts to remove the needless things from our lives lead us to needless situations. Wishing to remove the needless weight we damage our muscles and tendons and are getting hernias. Wishing to spend the needless money we meet people we do not need to know, do things we do not need to do and waste our time. At the end we learn the hard way that out of all imaginable things time is never needless.
Come to think of it, this is what usually happens not only to our programs but to ourselves. Oh, how often our efforts to remove the needless things from our lives lead us to needless situations. Wishing to remove the needless weight we damage our muscles and tendons and are getting hernias. Wishing to spend the needless money we meet people we do not need to know, do things we do not need to do and waste our time. At the end we learn the hard way that out of all imaginable things time is never needless.
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