Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack was trapped in the future until some mean wizard Apu let him go.

Few know that Samurai Jack was an elite coder, but Apu knew, and wanted him to create something with his skillz.

Samurai Jack was good enough, he turned the O(n⁴) problem into a O(1) problem. The answer was simply "yes".

Translation/after-effect: Four parameters to a function are as many as you'll EVER need -- with the possible exception of meta-functions, like a compiler or recursion, where the answer is five. Two is all you should need if you have objects. The universe figured it out with four dimensions, your problem probably isn't more complicated.

It is said that once, when he was in supreme harmony with the Tao, he transformed a whole OS and it`s applications into a single ~40K executable, because "you didn't need to do all of that other stuff" and "everything can be distilled into its essence".

Translation: The nature of data is interconnected. All data, apart from simulations, is related to the real world, so he defined a unified epistemological model and applied everything in the world to it. Three dimensions (plus one of color) of visualization was all that it took.

Indeed, his zen was so pure, he transformed a hardware fault into a simple software fix.

Translation: Sometimes you can *simulate* reality to solve a problem.

While it is said that all programs have bugs, Samurai Jack coded a general, integral solver for calculus while meditating and it had 0 bugs in it. No one needed to measure it.

Translation: Bug-free code is possible, but you have to be a master.

Though he was never asked to create a data-sharing system for the planet's exabytes of data, he turned in a program consisting of interconnected objects containing the same 4 functions. Those functions took only one piece of data.

Translation: The world is still looking for the problem, but this (Singularity) project has the answer.

Once, Master Jack was asked "How do you refactor so mercilessly?". Samurai Jack paused for a moment and said "Every problem can be divided until there is nothing left. Much like the game of 20 questions can sort through a million possibilities. One must know which questions to ask, otherwise the game of 20 questions turns into 200 questions. That is all."