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Comment by raarts | Hacker News Reader

Old German proverb: In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister.

A bit of searching found this translation

> The master shows himself first in confinement

Not a German, and not a native English speaker, but I would propose the following (depersonalized, inaccurate, paraphrased, bastard...) translation:

    Mastery reveals itself by the limitations of its scope.