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generators/fortune: Add quotes seen last week
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diff --git a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune index 65befb2..1af69a4 100644 --- a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune +++ b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune @@ -812,9 +812,9 @@ Haters Handbook % All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism. % -If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go -wrong, -and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop. +Murphy’s Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in +which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, +unprepared for, will promptly develop. % Miksch’s Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end. % @@ -1509,7 +1509,8 @@ of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of the citizens.” — John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival % -If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. +Murphy’s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have +obviously overlooked something. % Rules for thee, but not for me. % @@ -3066,6 +3067,31 @@ from the Local Food Front, Joel Salatin % Most open source software is free, at least at first glance. % -The way to a man's stomach is through his esophagus. +The way to a man’s stomach is through his esophagus. % Trash the planet. +% +A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better +lawyer. — Robert Frost +% +Murphy’s Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. +% +Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through +bureaucracies. +% +Anderson’s Law: You can’t depend on anyone to be wrong all the time. +% +The bigger they are, the harder they hit. +% +You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some +of the time, and that’s sufficient. +% +The Fame and Fortune Axiom: Competence is not a prerequisite for success. +% +Polis’ Attorney Law: Any law enacted with more than fifty words contains +at least one loophole. +% +Pray — or you will become prey. +% +You can get so much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind +word alone. — Irwin Corey |