I am trained in the arcane arts of computer science, those dark powers that grant control over the laws of mathematics, I am one with the processor itself, I am a programmer

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I am trained in the arcane arts of computer science, those dark powers that grant control over the laws of mathematics, I am one with the processor itself, I am a programmer
The control flow of the machine bends to my will!
All software runs only by my design!
TO THE MACHINE, I AM GOD

Mine, as of a couple of weeks ago is, "I will aim to please God and please myself.  Everyone else is a bonus!"

This might interest you Gareth, The Tao of Programming ....

"The Tao of Programming is a book written in 1987 by Geoffrey James. Written in a tongue-in-cheek style spoof of classic Taoist texts such as the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi which belies its serious message. The Tao of Programming consists of a series of short anecdotes divided into nine "books":
The Silent Void
The Ancient Masters
Design
Coding
Maintenance
Management
Corporate Wisdom
Hardware and Software
Epilogue
The themes of the book espouse many hacker ideals – managers should leave programmers to their work; code should be small, elegant, and maintainable; corporate wisdom is more often than not an oxymoron; and so on.
Geoffrey James wrote two more books like The Tao of Programming -- The Zen of Programming in 1988 and Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age in 1989. However, they have not been as well received"