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'/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune'); ?> </span> </div> diff --git a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f15dba7 --- /dev/null +++ b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune @@ -0,0 +1,1671 @@ +A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions +that make it fail. — Jerry Ogdin +% +If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — +Anatole France +% +“And who better understands the Unix—nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it +he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of +the task, gains merit by not coding?” Upon hearing this, the programmer was +enlightened. +— The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +Immortality — a fate worse than death. — Edgar A. Shoaff +% +Intellect annuls Fate. +So far as a man thinks, he is free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson +% +Let's call it an accidental feature. — Larry Wall +% +In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes +% +A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I +believe everything positively stinks. — Lew Col +% +Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, +Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning, — "Andrea del Sarto" +% +All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri +% +All men know the utility of useful things; +but they do not know the utility of futility. — Chuang—tzu +% +And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the +hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran +% +Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you? — +Patrick Volkerding +% +Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and I'm blinded by a bright, white +light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In +a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM +FOR THE 386. — Matt Welsh +% +Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. — Unknown +Source +% +Parkinson's Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay an important decision, the +good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. +% +Reliable source: The guy you just met. +% +Thyme's Law: Everything goes wrong at once. +% +Netscape is not a newsreader, and probably never shall be. — Tom Christiansen +% +You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, +for instance. — Franklin P. Jones +% +To be is to program. +% +There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our +whole lives, win, lose, or draw. — Walt Kelly +% +Illiterate? Write today, for free help! +% +Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. +% +Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person — +they will find an easier way to do it. +% +Davis' Law of Traffic Density: The density of rush—hour traffic +is directly proportional to 1.5 times the amount of extra time +you allow to arrive on time. +% +Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get +another chance later on. +% +Do more than anyone expects, and pretty soon everyone will expect more. +% +Turnaucka's Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its +electrical cord. +% +Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton +% +We can predict everything, except the future. +% +A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many +bad measures. — Daniel Webste +% +Agnes' Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. +% +Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it +himself. +% +Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained +by stupidity. +% +Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take +Hofstadter's Law into account. +% +Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory. +% +Pryor's Observation: How long you live has nothing to do +with how long you are going to be dead. +% +Whitehead's Law: The obvious answer is always overlooked. +% +G. B. Shaw's Law: Those who can — do. +Those who can't — teach. +Martin's Extension: Those who cannot teach — administrate. +% +Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the +most inconvenient possible time. +% +Guru: A computer owner who can read the manual. +% +First law of debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the +difference. +% +Woodward's Law: A theory is better than its explanation. +% +Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. +% +Hildebrant's Principle: If you don't know where you are going, any road will +get you there. +% +Committee: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group +decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen +% +“The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. +The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.” +— Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the +Local Food Front +% +“The command—line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. +“Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a +graphical user interface.” +Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at +the master's hand. +— The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +The master replied: “There is a defect, and I am considering the best way to +repair it.” +The novice said, “You preach often about the importance of setting priorities. +How, then, can you obsess about something so tiny and unimportant?” Without +saying a word, +the master raised his staff and brought it down hard upon +the bare left foot of the novice, breaking his smallest toe. +— Codeless Code +% +“Master Foo, I am gravely troubled. In my youth, those who followed the Great +Way of Unix used +software that was simple and unaffected, like ed and mailx. Today, they use vim +and mutt. +Tomorrow I fear they will use KMail and Evolution, and Unix will have become +like +Windows — bloated and covered over with GUIs.” +Master Foo said: “But what software do you use when you want to draw a +poster?” +— The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +“Master Foo,” he asked “why do Unix users not employ antivirus programs? +And defragmentors? And malware cleaners?” +Master Foo smiled, and said “When your house is well constructed, +there is no need to add pillars to keep the roof in place.” +— The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +The recruiter said, “I have observed that Unix hackers scowl or become +annoyed when +I ask them how many years of experience they have in a new programming +language. Why is this so?” +Master Foo stood, and began to pace across the office floor. +The recruiter was puzzled, and asked “What are you doing?” +“I am learning to walk,” replied Master Foo. +— The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +“Is your code ever completely without stain and flaw?” demanded Master Foo. +“No,” admitted the zealot, “no man's is.” +“The wisdom of the Patriarchs” said Master Foo, “was that they knew they +were fools.” +Upon hearing this, the zealot was enlightened. +— The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +Lewis's Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't +belong to anyone, ever. +% +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 +% +Slous' Contention: If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. +% +Udall's Fourth Law: Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences +you +don't like. +% +Sacher's Observation: Some people grow with responsibility — others merely +swell. +% +Law of the Jungle: He who hesitates is lunch. +% +Fifth Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the +feeling that +there is nothing important to do. +% +Boucher's Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music +several octaves higher than originally written. +% +Booker's Law: An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. +% +Williams and Holland's Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven +by statistical +methods. +% +Burke's Postulates: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking +about. +Don't create a problem for which you do not have the answer. +% +The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously. +% +Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people +into two +types, and those who don't. +% +Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always +too many days +before Saturday. +% +Peers's Law: The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem. +% +Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" +% +Government's Law: There is an exception to all laws. +% +Hitchcock's Staple Principle: The stapler runs out of staples only while you +are trying to +staple something. +% +Finagle's Seventh Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. +% +Chism's Law of Completion: The amount of time required to complete a government +project is +precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it. +% +Chisolm's First Corollary to Murphy's Second Law: When things just can't +possibly get any worse, they will. +% +Murphy's Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will. +(2) Nothing is as easy as it looks. +(3) Everything takes longer than you think it will. +% +Carswell's Corollary: Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, +nature invariably comes up with a better mouse. +% +Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: +Those who understand what they do not manage. +Those who manage what they do not understand. +% +Rule of the Great: When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep +thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. +% +There must be more to life than having everything. — Maurice Sendak +% +In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. — Dr. Laurence J. Peter +% +The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; +and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of +anarchy and despotism. +— Percy Bysshe Shelley +% +While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own +form of misery. +% +He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion +% +How come everyone's going so slow if it's called rush hour? +% +Work expands to fill the time available. — Cyril Northcote Parkinson, “The +Economist”, 1955 +% +Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. +Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done. +% +Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. +% +To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard +% +To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three +persons, two of them absent. +% +If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. — G. K. Chesterton +% +There's no such thing as a free lunch. — Milton Friedman +% +The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to +fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to +disregard the first lesson of economics. — Thomas Sowell +% +The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny +can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he +confuses it with feeling. — Thomas Sowell +% +It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own +ignorance. — Thomas Sowell +% +If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Maslow +% +Ninety percent of everything is crap. — Theodore Sturgeon +% +It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together. — Washlesky +% +Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to +know the answers. — Gene Wolfe, "The Claw of the Conciliator" +% +Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus. +% +You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra +% +Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. +% +In war, truth is the first casualty. — U Thant +% +The hardware designer said: “It is rumored that you are a great programmer. +How many lines of code do you write per year?” +Master Foo replied with a question: “How many square inches of silicon do you +lay out per year?” — The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +The student said: “How, then, are those enlightened in the Unix Way to return +to the Windows world?” +Master Foo said: “To return to Windows, you have but to boot it up.” — +The Unix Koans of Master Foo +% +The master considered this, and said: “It is certain that we could forgo +testing altogether, if we knew our code to be perfect. How, then, may we +achieve perfection?” +“Through practice,” said one monk. +“Through diligent study,” said another. +“Through the appeasement of the proper gods,” said a third. +— Codeless Code +% +If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — +Simone de Beauvoir +% +Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick +to possibilities; truth isn't. +— Mark Twain +% +There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the +truth without lying. — Josh Billings +% +“They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level dwelling +preferable. +The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the +blasts of fortune. +Buildings have need of a good foundation, that lie so much exposed to the +weather.” +— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking +% +“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.” +— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking +% +The woods are lovely, dark and deep. +— Robert Frost +% +Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version +of glibc installed, +and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’. +— “Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon” from Charlie Harvey +% +The words fly away, the writings remain. +% +Rule of Life Number One — Never get separated from your luggage. +% +He who knows nothing, knows nothing. +But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. +And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, +he knows something. Or something like that. +% +“The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will +never solve — politics.” — Gavin Baker, ca 1996, An unusually cynical +moment inspired +by working on a large project beseiged by politics. +% +(1) The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved. +(2) No problem should ever have to be solved twice. +(3) Boredom and drudgery are evil. +(4) Freedom is good. +(5) Attitude is no substitute for competence. +— Eric S. Raymond +% +“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. +Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.” +— Unknown +% +“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.” +— Unknown +% +“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s +got a responsibility.” +— Newton Minow +% +“A library is infinity under a roof.” +— Gail Carson Levine +% +“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” +— Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics +% +“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” +— Navajo Proverb +% +“During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel +business.” +— Mark Twain +% +The 1% Rule: The number of people who create content on the Internet represents +approximately +1% of the people who view that content. +% +Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the +world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan +% +I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World +War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein +% +Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? — Steven Wright +% +Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. +Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading +it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving +from where you left them to where you can't find them. +% +If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. — Norm +Schryer +% +It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. — +Aeschylus +% +Olmstead's Law: After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than +done. +% +I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a +knob called "brightness", but it doesn't seem to work. — Gallagher +% +Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means +for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley +% +Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least +accessible +corner of the workshop. +% +Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. — Hans Liepmann +% +Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. The greatest feeling? +Landing... Landing is the greatest feeling you can have. +% +"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things + we don't know yet." — Ambrose Bierce +% +If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot +of different places, just write a Unix operating system. — Linus Torvalds +% +Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree +of life. +— Proverbs +% +If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the +tree falleth, there it shall be. +— Ecclesiastes +% +“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we +go in the scale of life, +the greater is the capacity for suffering.” +— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking +% +“The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.” +— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking +% +“All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not +filled.” +— Ecclesiastes +% +The Fifth Law of Computer Programming: Any given program will expand to fill +all available memory. +% +Corcoroni's First Law of Bus Transportation: The bus that left the stop just +before you got there is your bus. +% +Law of Annoyance: When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're +certain you're finished with, +you will need it instantly. +% +The First Discovery of Christmas Morning: Batteries not included. +% +Corcoroni's Third Law of Bus Transportation: All buses heading in the opposite +direction drive off the face of +the earth and never return. +% +Durrell's Parameter: The faster the plane, the narrower the seats. +% +Ettorre's Observation: The other line moves faster. +Corollary: Don't try to change lines. The other line — the one you were in +originally — will then move faster. +% +Ehrman's Commentary: Things will get worse before they will get better. Who +said things would get better? +% +Ducharme's Precept: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. +% +Dijkstra's Prescription for Programming Inertia: If you don't know what your +program is supposed to do, you'd better +not start writing it. +% +Commoner's First Law of Ecology: No action is without side—effects. +% +Cohn's Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the +less time you have to do anything. +Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting +on the nothing you are doing. +% +Law of Permanence: Political power is as permanent as today's newspaper. +Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any +state was today. +% +Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable +from magic. +% +Cheops's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. +% +Hacker's Law: The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a +nation or an +organization to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions. +% +Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken. +% +Issawi's Law of the Conservation of Evil: The total amount of evil in any +system remains constant. +Hence, any diminution in one direction — for instance, a reduction in poverty +or unemployment — +is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution. +% +Kelley's Law: Last guys don't finish nice. +% +Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is +absolutely true except for that +rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. +% +Kohn's Second Law: Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory +tries to repeat it. +% +Lowrey's Law of Expertise: Just when you get really good at something, you +don't need to do it any more. +% +Lynch's Law: When the going gets tough, everybody leaves. +% +Martin's Law of Communication: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged +communication between +different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. +% +Cahn's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions. +% +Horngren's Observation: The real world is a special case. +% +Merkin's Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue. +% +Comins' Law: People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them +Benjamin Franklin said it first. +% +Rosenfield's Regret: The most delicate component will be dropped. +% +Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not +to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer. +% +Connected. Take this REPL, brother, and may it serve you well. +% +First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. +% +Leahy's Law: If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right. +% +Luce's Law: No good deed goes unpunished. +% +Putt's Corollary: Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence +inversion. +% +Reed's Law: The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, scales +exponentially with the size of the network. +% +Premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth +% +The Pareto Principle: Most things in life are not distributed evenly. +% +The KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid. +% +Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. +% +Are we consing yet? +% +The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter +% +“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” +— Mark Twain +% +Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns. +% +Historian’s Rule: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear +inevitable by a competent historian. +% +Dunning—Kruger Effect: If you're incompetent, you can't know you're +incompetent. The skills you need to produce a right answer +are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is. +Conclusion: Poor performers are not in a position to recognize +the shortcomings in their performance. +% +Gretzky's Truism: You miss 100% of the shots you never take. +% +Gresham's Law: Bad money drives out good. +% +Glasow's Comment: There's something wrong if you're always right. +% +Franklin's Rule: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be +disappointed. +% +Fetridge's Law: Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, +especially when people are looking. +% +Farkus' Law: There will always be a closer parking space than the one you +found. Goodman's Corollary: But if +you go looking for it, someone else will already have taken it. +% +Hagenbach and Nuremberg's Poor Defense: “I was only following orders, sir. An +order is an order.” +% +McIntyre’s First Law: Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you +could be wrong. +% +Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. +— Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael +Fitzgerald +% +Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem +struggling to get out. +% +Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has +been discontinued. +% +Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. +% +Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. +% +It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. +What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, +devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self—critical? — Alan +Perlis +% +Non—Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative +results. +Positive expectations yield negative results. +% +Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics: (1) An object in motion will always be +headed in the wrong direction. +(2) An object at rest will always be in the wrong place. +(3) The energy required to change either one of these states will always be +more than you wish to expend, +but never so much as to make the task totally impossible. +% +Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. +% +Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. +% +There are no games on this system. +% +Committee Rules: (1) Never arrive on time, or you will be stamped a beginner. +(2) Don't say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being +wise. +(3) Be as vague as possible; this prevents irritating the others. +(4) When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed. +(5) Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular — it's +what everyone is waiting for. +% +Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. +% +“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” +— Herbert Hoover +% +Chesterton's Fence: Reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the +existing state of affairs is understood. +% +I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the +battle to the strong, neither yet bread to +the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of +skill; +but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes +% +Schmidt's Law: If you mess with a thing long enough, it'll break. Wyszkowski's +Second Law: Anything can be made to work +if you fiddle with it long enough. +% +Hoover's Affirmation: Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national +debt. +% +Sueker's Note: If you need "n" items of anything, you will have "n-1" in +stock. +% +Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. — +Margaret Mead +% +DRY: Don’t repeat yourself. WET: Write everything twice. +% +Isaiah's Observation: And judgment is turned away backward, and justice +standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, +and equity cannot enter. +% +The best things in life are for a fee. +% +“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: +freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the +wisdom never to use either.” — Mark Twain +% +The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee: The greatest single aid to distance is for +the disc to be going in a +direction you did not want. (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long way.) — Dan +Roddick +% +Of course you have a purpose — to find a purpose. +% +Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself — and then a couple +of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman +% +Connected. Hacks and glory await! +% +Connected. May the source be with you! +% +Survivorship Bias: Concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some +process and inadvertently +overlooking those that didn't because of their lack of visibility. +% +Curse of Knowledge: When better informed people find it extremely difficult +to think about problems from +the perspective of lesser informed people. +% +“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” — +Vladimir Lenin +% +Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make +a person educated, +any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. +% +What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. +% +Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publius Syrus +% +Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. +% +Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, +give him power. — Abraham Lincoln +% +Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature. +% +If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from? +% +When in doubt, use brute force. — Ken Thompson +% +Grelb's Reminder: Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above +average drivers. +% +Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, along comes a faster rat! +% +The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more +important to do. +% +To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. — Robert Heller +% +Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions +seldom black or white. +Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the +other side to be totally the winner. +The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side +has all the facts. +Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from +political motivation. +Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth. — +Stephen R. Schwambach +% +One reason why George Washington Is held in such veneration: He never blamed +his problems +on the former Administration. — George O. Ludcke +% +If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a +sound? +If you didn't get caught, did you really do it? +% +Rhode's Law: When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, +circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, +indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, +induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically +guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political +advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, +or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and +unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered +to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely +so, until such time as it +becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe. +% +The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody +appreciates how difficult it was. +% +Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It’s the “Un—Operating System”: +unreliable, +unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more +frustrating +than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. — The Unix +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. +% +Miksch's Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end. +% +Irrationality is the square root of all evil. — Douglas Hofstadter +% +Jone's Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to +blame it on. +% +Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to +increase regardless +of the amount of work to be done. +% +Wicker's Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. +% +Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the +population is growing. +% +Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. +% +“If you give someone your name, they can take your soul. If you give them +your birthday, +they can control your life.” — Yuuko Ichihara +% +King Solomon's Lament: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall +there be any +remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. +% +Friendship: A ship big enough to carry +two in fair weather, but only one in foul. — The Devil's Dictionary +% +“You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell +lies?” +— Buster the Myth Maker +% +“We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm +depend on us. +Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we +drink the milk and eat those apples.” +— George Orwell's Animal Farm +% +Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No, unhappy the land that +needs heroes. +— Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo" +% +User: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. — The New Hacker's +Dictionary +% +Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. — Dijkstra +% +Gumperson's Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely +proportional to its desirability. +% +It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall +% +Logic doesn't apply to the real world. — Marvin Minsky +% +Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. — French Proverb +% +It's not what you know, it's who you know. +% +Leibowitz's Rule: When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you +hold the hammer with both hands. +% +When the government's remedies don't match your problem, you +modify the problem, not the remedy. +% +Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. — +Irene Peter +% +Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a +cliche is a +sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to +say, "The black +cat is always the last one off the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but +at one time, +it was undoubtedly true. — Solomon Short +% +When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm +beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow +% +Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of +facts is no more a science than a heap +of stones is a house. — Henri Poincaré +% +Insanity is the final defense. +% +Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If +everything did, you'd be out of a job. +% +Swipple's Rule of Order: He who shouts the loudest has the floor. +% +There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell in A +Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of +Political Struggles +% +For the love of life, there's a trade-off. We could loose it all — but we'll +go down fighting. — David Sylvian +% +The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose +from. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum +% +Real users never know what they want, but they always know when your program +doesn't deliver it. +% +Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we +deserve. — George Bernard Shaw +% +A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to +protect them from each other +or something like that. +% +Fudd's First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall +over. +% +The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the +one who is doing it. +% +Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be +answered by the word no. +% +What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely +different things. — Margaret Mead +% +Newton's Flaming Laser Sword: What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth +debating. +% +The Sagan Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. +% +Wirth's Law: Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster. +% +Let justice prevail even though the heavens may fall. +% +Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. +Corollary: Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can. +% +Gates's Law: The speed of software halves every 18 months. +% +Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug. +% +With great privilege comes great responsibility. +% +Kernighan's Law: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a +program +in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how +will you ever debug it? +% +Wiio's First Law of Communication: Communication usually fails, except by +accident. Corollary: (1) +If communication can fail, it will. (2) If communication cannot fail, it still +most usually fails. +(3) If communication seems to succeed in the intended way, there's a +misunderstanding. +(4) If you are content with your message, communication certainly fails. +% +Wiio's Second Law of Communication: If a message can be interpreted in several +ways, it will be +interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage. +% +Wiio's Third Law of Communication: There is always someone who knows better +than you what you meant with your message. +% +Wiio's Fourth Law of Communication: The more we communicate, the worse +communication succeeds. Corollary: +The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate. +% +Wiio's Fifth Law of Communication: In mass communication, the important thing +is not how things are but how they seem to be. +% +Wiio's Sixth Law of Communication: The importance of a news item is inversely +proportional to the square of the distance. +% +Wiio's Seventh Law of Communication: The more important the situation is, the +more probable you had forgotten an essential +thing that you remembered a moment ago. +% +“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we +don't like.” — Dave Ramsey +% +Just living in the database. +% +To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights +or asking you to surrender these rights. +Therefore, you have certain responsibilities — responsibilities to respect +the freedom of others. +% +We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local system +administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: +(1) Respect the privacy of others. +(2) Think before you type. +(3) With great power comes great responsibility. +% +Frequency Illusion (Baader—Meinhof Phenomenon): The illusion where something +that has recently come to one's +attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards. +% +The Backdraft Phenomenon: A rapid or explosive burning of superheated gasses in +a fire, caused when oxygen rapidly +enters an oxygen—depleted environment. +% +March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. +% +Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would +behave very differently from those who now hold it — when, in truth, in +order to get power we would have to become very much like them. +% +Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say, +are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. +For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. — Dennis Ritchie +% +Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. — Russian Sailor's Proverb +% +Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking? +% +Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No man's life, liberty, or +property are safe while the +legislature is in session. +% +I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for +nothing. I gave them nothing for something. — The Yellow Kid +% +Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. — James Thurber +% +A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest +man a century. +% +Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute. +% +Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. +% +One man's simple is another man's complex. +% +Every so often the stars align. +% +Nobody wants a backup, everybody wants a restore. +% +Kingmaker Scenario: A player who is unable to win has the ability +to influence who will win. +% +Programmers do it bit by bit. +% +Brontosaurus Principle: Organizations can grow faster than their brains can +manage them +in relation to their environment and to their own physiology: when this +occurs, they are +an endangered species. — Thomas K. Connellan +% +Today will be remembered until tomorrow. +% +It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your processes are? +% +It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your backups are? +% +It's ten o'clock. Do you know where the source code is? +% +This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had there been an +actual emergency, then you would no longer be here. +% +To teach is to learn twice. — Joseph Joubert +% +Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. +% +The so—called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations +of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner +% +(1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes. +% +Ryan's Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish +yourself as an expert. +% +Fast, cheap, good: pick one. +% +My guidingstar always is, “Get hold of portable property”. — Charles +Dickens in “Great Expectations” +% +If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. +% +C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie +% +Use only as directed. +% +If the meanings of “true” and “false” were switched, then this sentence +would not be false. +% +Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. — George Orwell's +1984 +% +A truth that's told with bad intent +beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake +% +You don't have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer. +% +It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. — Quintus Horatius +Flaccus (Horace) +% +Tell the truth and run. — Yugoslav Proverb +% +It's not easy, being green. — Kermit The Frog +% +Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us +with politics’, +respond those who don't want to learn. +— Richard Stallman +% +A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, +and are punished. +— Proverbs +% +Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born +to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz, “Social +Studies” +% +In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don't need it. Wait, is it +the other way around? +% +“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” — George +Bernard Shaw +% +You are the only person to ever get this message. +% +Steele's Law: There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than ten men +or fewer than one hundred. +% +For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. +— H. L. Mencken +% +Rights, Responsibility, Opportunity, and Privilege. +% +Measure twice, cut once. +% +No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would. +% +Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. +— Rich Kulawiec +% +Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. +% +Jack of all trades, master of some. +% +In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. +— Pliny the Elder +% +“There is no such thing as good writing, +only good rewriting.” — Robert Graves +% +Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side. +% +If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. — +Arthur Kasspe +% +Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. +% +If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls +out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your pen. +% +He that teaches himself has a fool for a master. +— Benjamin Franklin +% +Mix's Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building and a +temporary tax. +% +Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. +— Karl Lehenbauer +% +Don't kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever. +% +Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even +where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev +% +It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you +did it wrong. — H. W. Longfellow +% +Your code should be more efficient! +% +“One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that +correlation +is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.” — Thomas +Sowell in +The Vision of the Anointed +% +“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who +produce, +subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.” +— Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed +% +“People make money for themselves, not for their country.” +— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires +% +“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at +length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, +but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats.” +— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires +% +Inner—Platform Effect: The tendency of software architects to create a system +so customizable +as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development +platform they are using. +% +“It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.” +— Thomas Sowell +% +“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help +yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” +— Thomas Sowell +% +“Intellect is not wisdom.” +— Thomas Sowell in Intellectuals and Society +% +“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like +discrimination.” +— Thomas Sowell +% +“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were +considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.” +— Thomas Sowell +% +The cloud is just someone else's computer. +% +Hoffer's Discovery: The grand act of a dying institution is to issue a newly +revised, enlarged edition of the policies and procedures manual. +% +You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. +— Norman Douglas +% +“Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” — Carl Sagan +% +He who is content with his lot probably has a lot. +% +“It takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village +idiot to believe that. +It is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for +which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.” +— Thomas Sowell +% +The best is the enemy of the good. +% +“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face +— forever.” +— George Orwell's 1984 +% +The stars are bright. But give no light. The world spins backwards every day. +— The Singing Sea +% +“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for +being ‘simplistic’ should +realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is +evading the truth.” +— Thomas Sowell in Barbarians Inside The Gates and Other Controversial Essays +% +We aren’t in your region yet. +% +“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” — +Linus Torvalds +% +Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. +% +Astroturfing: The deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or +public +relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the +public — fake +grass roots support. +% +The right creature in the right place. +% +Weinberg’s Law: If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote +programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. +% +Feed a dog for three days and he will remember your kindness for three years; +feed a cat for three years and she will +forget your kindness in three days. +% +If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. — Proverbs +% +Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. — Yogi Berra +% +Force has no place where there is need of skill. — Herodotus +% +Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield +lands directly in front of your eyes. +% +If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. +% +In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, +there is. +% +The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be +correct. — William of Occam +% +The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the +stupidity of your action. +% +Hell is empty and all the devils are here. — Shakespeare, "The Tempest" +% +“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?” +— Will Rogers +% +Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once. +% +We must believe in free will. We have no choice. — Isaac B. Singer +% +Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in +which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs. +% +This space intentionally left blank. +% +Katz' Law: Men and nations will act rationally when +all other possibilities have been exhausted. +% +History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have +exhausted all other alternatives. — Abba Eban +% +Just fight it out. +% +Murphy's Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because +fools are so ingenious. +% +Corporate Republic: A theoretical form of government run primarily like a +business, involving a board of directors and executives, in which all aspects +of society are privatized by a single, or small groups of companies. +% +Measure once, cut thrice. +% +Oppression: The malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, +often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. +% +No man is an island entire of itself; every man +is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. — John Donne +% +Deception: An act or statement which misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, +concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. +Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as +distraction, camouflage, or concealment. +% +Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. +% +The right tool for the right job. +% +Failed to suspend system via logind: There's already a shutdown or +sleep operation in progress. +% +Whistler's Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge. +% +You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable +proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. +% +I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting: +a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows. +— Dwight D. Eisenhower +% +Appearances often are deceiving. — Aesop +% +Prices subject to change without notice. +% +No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list. +% +Talent does what it can. +Genius does what it must. +You do what you get paid to do. +% +Experiments must 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 +% +We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's out. +% +Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else? +% +Subject to change without notice. +% +People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. +% +Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. +% +Van Roy's Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control. +% +Competition Law: A law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition +by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. +% +Don't believe everything you see or hear on the news. +% +Newton's Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. +% +The Fediverse: An ensemble of federated servers that are used for web publishing +and file hosting, which while independently hosted, can intercommunicate with each other. +% +There is enough treachery, hatred, violence, absurdity in the average +human being to supply any given army on any given day. — The Genius of the Crowd +% +Don't be evil. +% +The personal becomes the political. +% +It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Quintus Horatius +Flaccus (Horace) +% +Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. +% +History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. +— Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims" +% +Finster's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet. +% +The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan +% +Shick's Law: There is no problem a good miracle can't solve. +% +A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. +— Alan Perlis +% +Kington's Law of Perforation: If a straight line of holes is made in a piece +of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest +part of the paper. +% +Lisp users: Due to the holiday next Monday, there will be no garbage collection. +% +Anything cut to length will be too short. +% +Arnold's Laws of Documentation: +(1) If it should exist, it doesn't. +(2) If it does exist, it's out of date. +(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws. +% +If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again. +% +This land is mine, God gave this land to me. — The Exodus Song +% +Here's a dirty little secret: Very few people know what they're doing. +% +Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself. +% +Fresco's Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored. +Corollary: Just because you're bored doesn't mean you know what you're doing. +% +Maryann's Law: You can always find what you're not looking for. +% +Langer's Law: If the line moves quickly, you're in the wrong line. +% +Beryl's Second Law: It's always easy to see both sides of an issue +you are not particularly concerned about. +% +Herman's Law: A good scapegoat is almost as good as a solution. +% +Irene's Law: There is no right way to do the wrong thing. +% +The world wants to be deceived. — Sebastian Brant +% +No matter what anyone tells you, isometric exercises cannot be done +quietly at your desk at work. People will suspect manic tendencies as +you twitter around in your chair. +% +How many comments on the Internet do you surmise are fake? +% +People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. +— Otto Von Bismarck +% +If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. — Chinese Proverb +% +If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire +deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading +are precisely those that challenge our convictions. — Unknown +% +Linux sucks. +% +Will I be accused of being an elitist if I use Arch Linux? +% +We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. +% +Occam's Eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest +solution is bound to have something wrong with it. +% +Membership dues are not refundable. +% +If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak. — Phil Wayne +% +Your mileage may vary. +% +Laura's Law: No child throws up in the bathroom. +% +Another day, another dollar. +% +Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance. +% +When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't. +% +“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” +— George Orwell's Animal Farm +% +“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the age of intellect is +the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve +the problems of the world ... In a wider national sphere, the survival +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. +% +Rules for thee, but not for me. +% +Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair — It gives you something to do, +but it doesn't get you anywhere. +% +Some people are backed by cosmic luck. +% +You can't handle the truth. +% +Gyre: A spiral or vortex. +% +The decentralized web is coming. +% +The children of the magenta line. +% +I've got no strings. — Pinocchio +% +The systemd-journald sucks. +% +Fame and fortune. +% +Every man has his price. +% +A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. +— Thomas Jefferson +% +Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. — Proverbs +% +The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental +performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and +analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within +the sphere of his real interests. He becomes a primitive again. +— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter +% +“This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice +or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; +but do not let us shut our eyes to it.” +— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy +% +“The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and +exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for +them have always told them that they were, without necessarily +meaning by it anything precise.” +— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy +% +The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail. +— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter +% +Advice from an old carpenter: Use the right tool for the right job. +% +Hypocrisy: A pretense of having a virtuous, moral, or religious character. +% +The mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of +reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending +to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson +% +A mob kills the wrong man was flashed in a newspaper headline lately. +% +Most people have two reasons for doing anything — a good reason, and +the real reason. +% +Formatted to fit your screen. +% +Magary's Principle: +When there is a public outcry to cut deadwood and fat from any +government bureaucracy, it is the deadwood and the fat that do +the cutting, and the public's services are cut. +% +Priming: The phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus influences +a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance +or intention. +% +Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. +% +YAML sucks. +% +Kubernetes sucks. +% +Sacred cow: An idea, custom, person, or institution unreasonably +held to be immune to criticism. +% +Everybody wants to be a cat. +% +Today is what happened to yesterday. +% +The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable. +% +You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? +— Larry Wall +% +As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? +% +“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, +it always wants more tomorrow.” +— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich +% +“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.” +— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich +% +Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always. +— Albert Schweitzer +% +My computer can beat up your computer. — Karl Lehenbauer +% +Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back to life. +% +If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real +good, you will get out of it. +% +What orators lack in depth they make up in length. +% +You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads +lead down. — Stanislaw Lem in "The Cyberiad" +% +The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible +enough to give none. +% +Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one. +— A.J. Liebling +% +We are all born equal ... just some of us are more equal than others. +% +What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. +— Wittgenstein +% +The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. +— Nathaniel Howe +% +“Has it ever occcured to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the +very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could +understand such a conversation as we are having now?” +— George Orwell in 1984 +% +“With software there are only two possibilites: either the users +control the programme or the programme controls the users. If +the programme controls the users, and the developer controls +the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.” +— Richard Stallman +% +Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. +% +You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. +% +Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past. +% +Linux is obsolete. — Andrew Tanenbaum +% +Every man thinks God is on his side. — Jean Anouilh, "The Lark" +% +Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle +% +Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. +% +Divide first, then conquer. +% +The game is rigged. |