sages

It means to stop paying attention to blah-blah-blah around you (that's why ancient sages went to forests or mountains) and develop yourself.

Mostly it falls back to personal preference, which programmer sages you trust, and what the current industry fashion is.

The sages give you an incantation for a ritual and you, the believer use it.

Basically every community has their heroes, people that from the outside look like cult leaders but from the inside look like wise sages.

And I have no problem with design patterns being taught as the collective folk wisdom of wise sages of industry.

One of the great sages of the world soon to leave us.

Basketball sages point out that the press can be beaten by a well-coached team with adept ball handlers and astute passers — and that is true.

In Chinese and Japanese stories, both old folklore and current modern renderings of it, there are stories of the young getting rewarded for listening to the old sages.

But so many people were curious, that a group of sages got together to look for a method of finding the answer, and this is what they came up with.

In hindu mythology, we hear tales of sages having great powers that they could do lot of things just by thought and I always thought it was all untrue.

… O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul.

They are all cowboys that try to act like visionaries and sages, and either peter out or get lucky with a big exit, because a single big exit from your first fund is enough to guarantee the rest of your career.

The sages are without fault, because they recognize the fault as a fault".

Instead of being thought of as "older" they are thought of as the sages of the industry, filled with wisdom that can only be purchased with decades of industry experience.

While I see what you are saying, it strikes me as advice that would make him fade into, if not irrelevance, some kind of "Sages of Yesteryear" status.

"do not follow in the footsteps of the sages, seek what they sought." but do listen to their advice and do your own thinking.

Secrets of the 3D Game Programming Sages.