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Keeping a lot of
state in your head while modifying a
program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that
an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being
scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in
God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien
describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless
eggs in variable gravity." See also
hack mode.