in other words

It should be inserted here parenthetically that there's a school of mechanical
thought which says I shouldn't be getting into a complex assembly I don't
know anything about. I should have training or leave the job to a specialist.
That's a self-serving school of mechanical eliteness I'd like to see wiped out.
That was a ``specialist'' who broke the fins on this machine. I've edited
manuals written to train specialists for IBM, and what they know when
they're done isn't that great. You're at a disadvantage the first time around
and it may cost you a little more because of parts you accidentally damage,
and it will almost undoubtedly take a lot more time, but the next time
around you're way ahead of the specialist. You, with gumption, have learned
the assembly the hard way and you've a whole set of good feelings about it
that he's unlikely to have.

-Pirsig, Zen and the art of ....


If you meet the Buddha on road, kill him !
 - old zen saying


If you have a hero, look again, you have diminished yourself in some way
 - Sheldon Kopp