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author | Thedro Neely <thedroneely@gmail.com> | 2022-01-08 22:09:30 -0500 |
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generators/fortune: Add quotes seen in the few last weeks
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diff --git a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune index a662b13..bee7d0a 100644 --- a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune +++ b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Dow’s Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion. % Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. -— Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated” +— Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” % Slous’ Contention: If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck with it. % @@ -3548,3 +3548,67 @@ You may be marching to the beat of a different drummer, but you’re still in the parade. % You have junk mail. +% +To do two things at once is to do neither. +— Publilius Syrus +% +If life is merely a joke, the question still +remains: for whose amusement? +% +The reward for working hard is more hard work. +% +Nobody said computers were going to be polite. +% +Tell me what to think! +% +Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet +deprecate agitation, are men who want rain +without thunder and lightning. They want the +ocean without the roar of its many waters. — +Frederick Douglass +% +Never underestimate the power of somebody with +source code, a text editor, and the willingness +to totally hose their system. — Rob Landley +% +Now I lay me back to sleep. +The speaker’s dull; the subject’s deep. +If he should stop before I wake, +Give me a nudge for goodness’ sake. +— Anonymous +% +“Man is the only animal that can remain on +friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat +until he eats them.” — Samuel Butler, The Note +Books of Samuel Butler +% +Stein’s Law: If something cannot go on forever, +it will stop. +% +Internet: Amazon +% +A fool uttereth all his mind. — Proverbs +% +Is nepotism a crime? +% +Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. +% +Position. Velocity. Acceleration. Jerk. Snap. +Crackle. Pop. +% +Nihilism: The belief that life is meaningless. +% +It’s easier to fool people than to convince +them that they have been fooled. +% +If everyone is thinking alike then somebody +isn’t thinking. — George S. Patton +% +Krishnamurti said, “It’s no measure of health +to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick +society.” — Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: +A Memoir of Insanity +% +Matthew Effect: For whosoever hath, to him shall +be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall +be taken even that which he seemeth to have. |