X-Git-Url: https://git.cameronkatri.com/bsdgames-darwin.git/blobdiff_plain/b40eec13865d14c3978eb0a8496a54065b5636f8..b7176f74c6ada919c7309e154a45c4ddd0de4627:/fortune/datfiles/fortunes diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 4480b304..10988fb2 100644 --- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -16241,6 +16241,64 @@ unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext. -- Bob Morris, Crypto '95 % -Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is writing -it down. +Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is +writing it down. -- Adam Savage +% + THE PURPLE COW Confession: and a Portrait, Too, +Reflections on a Mythic Beast, Upon a Background that I Rue! + Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least. + Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow"-- +I never saw a Purple Cow; I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! + I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, +But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it! + I'd rather see than be one. -- Gelett Burgess +% +Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we +can perform without thinking about them. + -- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) +% +I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter +than a season. + -- Josh Rosen +% +Computers for the brasses -- art for the masses. + -- J.C.R. Licklider +% +If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a +computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day, and +that was instantly responsive to every action you had, how much value could +you derive from that? + -- Douglas Engelbart, Fall Joint Computer Conference, + December 9th, 1968 +% +They made me do it +% +It was the first thing that I formed a really powerful bond with. +It was some sort of mental love missile and I just lit the touch paper and +fired myself into it, at oblivious speed, and it exploded, and sparkled and it +was totally beautiful. + -- Chris Packham and the kestrel +% +Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by +there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton. + -- Alexei Sayle +% +I wonder why. I wonder why. +I wonder why I wonder. +I wonder why I wonder why +I wonder why I wonder! + -- Richard P. Feynman, "Always Trying to Escape" +% +Fanfare, n.: + The food available for consumption at a con. +% +Fail we may, sail we must +% +Don't shout at your JBODs, they don't like it! + -- Brendan Gregg, "Shouting in the Datacenter" +% +Bell has two patents on UNIX +a) set-user-id bit +b) on "typo" ! + -- John Lions, Australian UNIX Users Group Newsletter, Oct 1978