8 example sentences using koan.
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I suspect it was offered as a dark koan, not an earnest wish.
]I think this is a good koan--something to provoke further thought.
' Like each koan would be a little puzzle where you manipulate the box model etc.
A favorite koan of mine: objects are a poor man's closures, but closures are a poor man's objects.
Very nice!Would like to see it feature a ToC so one can easily move between the koan categories.
I was reminded of Anton van Straaten's "koan" on closures vs. objects with venerable master Qc Na [1] ... but I digress.
This comment makes me want to come up with a 3D printing startup; you've practically distilled it to the koan of the "next important technology".
This "fuzzes" your search history,\n > making it difficult for Google [..] to gather\n > information about you.\n\nI am reminded of the classic MIT AI koan: > In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came\n > to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.\n > "What are you doing?
Koan definitions
a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning