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generators/fortune: Add quotes seen last week.
Fix a few quotes.
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@@ -1377,7 +1377,9 @@ Talent does what it can.
Genius does what it must.
You do what you get paid to do.
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-Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
+Finagle’s Fifth Rule: Experiments should be
+reproducible — they should all fail in the same
+way.
%
When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, “The handle is one of us!”
— Turkish Proverb
@@ -3256,7 +3258,7 @@ journalists, and they believe what they read. — Karl Kraus, Aphorisms
and More Aphorisms (1909)
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Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
-judgment. — Job
+judgment. — Elihu
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NP: Non—deterministic Polynomial Time.
%
@@ -3458,3 +3460,39 @@ The cost of living only goes up.
If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank
owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars,
you own the bank. — American Proverb
+%
+“You really think someone would do that? Just go on TV and tell
+lies?”
+%
+Ginsberg’s Theorem:
+(0) There is a game.
+(1) You can’t win.
+(2) You can’t even break even.
+(3) You can’t even quit the game.
+%
+Commoner’s Second Law of Ecology:
+Nothing ever goes away.
+%
+The snake shall eat its own tail.
+%
+Finagle’s First Rule: To study a subject best, understand
+it thoroughly before you start.
+%
+The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
+— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
+%
+The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between
+two points.
+— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
+%
+The Dialectics of Progress: Direct action produces direct
+reaction.
+— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
+%
+The Pace of Progress: Society is a mule, not a car ... If
+pressed too hard, it will kick and throw off its rider.
+— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
+%
+SDSM: Super Duper Secure Mode
+%
+Three–strikes Law: Three strikes and you’re out.