furrbear | A Koan

Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: "You are Yin
and I am Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast
sums of money." And so the set forth together, thinking to conquer the world.
        Presently they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags and
hobbled along propped on a thorny stick.  Firmware said to them: "The Tao
lies beyond Yin and Yang.  It is silent and still as a pool of water.  It does
not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence.  It does not seek fortune,
for it is complete within itself.  It exists beyond space and time."
        Software and Hardware, ashamed, returned to their homes.