"From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Welcome to computer debugging, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Only in place of that drop of water substitute "It doesn't work!" and you'd be perfectly at home in the 21st century.
