Commit Graph

158 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
1f95f872ae Trim some obnoxious warlording. 2005-02-03 08:47:14 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
57bc1cfb15 Removed more duplicates, by ignoring "i", "you", "we",
"an", "is", "are", "will", "'ll", "is", "'s" to find
them.  More to follow...
2005-02-03 08:40:08 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
3aa9a20802 Merged fortunes with fortunes2.
Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).
2005-02-03 00:20:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
5896d2bb13 Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2. 2005-02-02 10:24:11 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
150ea19c8e Ignore case and all non-word characters, and remove more duplicates. 2005-02-01 16:34:38 +00:00
Pav Lucistnik
647273571c - Add few lines from my personal signature file
Suggested by:	Florent Thoumie
Approved by:	mux
2005-02-01 16:22:44 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
ec28d17dba Removed full duplicates that only differ in amount of whitespace
and line breaks.
2005-02-01 15:15:33 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
0447ccf320 s/principals/principles/
Fortune was duplicated, remove one copy.
2005-01-22 20:00:50 +00:00
Greg Lehey
9322e0f841 Add comment on current state of hardware documentation.
Submitted by: philip
2005-01-19 23:34:25 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
5f7c5b5db6 "3 hands" 2004-12-24 12:59:26 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
86e3437258 From Richard W. Hamming ``You and Your Research''
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar
7 March 1986 by J. F. Kaiser:

        There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are
sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts
that people cannot think.
2004-12-11 21:57:27 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
f86495e781 The Ken Thompson school of thought on expert systems:
there's table lookup, fraud, and grand fraud.
                -- Andrew Hume

USENIX'04 Technical Conference, reported by Adam S. Moskowitz
;Login: 29(5):49, October 2004.
2004-11-27 08:28:58 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
20441b2ec2 Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
2004-10-27 20:28:56 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6373a876a4 Improve accuracy of last addition, as best Google advices me. 2004-10-22 19:59:37 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
c99726d396 I'm surprised this one was not here yet.
To save you all a trip to CVSWEB:

Experts have correctly predicted nine out of the last five recessions.
               -- Paul Samuelson,  Nobel laureate in economics.
2004-10-22 16:18:15 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
196d7a9b0c s/the on/on the/
PR:		misc/70842
Submitted by:	Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
2004-08-23 11:00:20 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
0f81131e63 Immortalize the words of a -current reader. 2004-08-20 13:39:28 +00:00
Robert Watson
e10d31a8f2 Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrand
Russell.
2004-08-15 19:24:17 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
d453d5bc01 The name of the landlord in Shaw's _The Man of Destiny_ is Giuseppe (not
Guiseppe) Gandi.

Submitted by:	Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com>
MFC after:	3 days
2004-07-26 21:18:58 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
2a5395ddef Fix whitespace and punctuation.
PR:            misc/49967
Submitted by:  Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
2004-07-20 08:28:28 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
e60883c5a2 Add a Nicollism. 2004-06-24 03:08:44 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fb86d10eff Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman. 2004-06-01 09:45:16 +00:00
Doug Barton
afe8bb313c * Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace)
* Spell out some names that were pointlessly abbreviated
* Remove a couple of incidental duplicates
* Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was added to his
name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore it's not usually punctuated.
* Format a couple of actual fortunes to fit into 72 columns
2004-06-01 04:32:11 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
7aab90d5f7 Definition of recursion. 2004-05-25 19:15:02 +00:00
Tony Finch
00b1a2a12f Pedantry.
Submitted by:	njl@
2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
Tony Finch
aa0bdecb75 On the signs of network congestion.
Submitted by:	Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-11 10:00:14 +00:00
Tony Finch
fffbf07a36 Re-sort 2004-05-10 23:02:07 +00:00
Tony Finch
7475c308d4 Moore's law vs. Nethack
Submitted by:   Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-10 23:00:26 +00:00
Colin Percival
9a34ab29f0 Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong. 2004-04-29 06:14:00 +00:00
Greg Lehey
6a9114196c Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages. 2004-04-21 22:39:46 +00:00
Ceri Davies
14f166b706 Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele.
"Ukulele" is the canonical term, with "ukelele" being a derivation.
Also there is some evidence that the original appearance of the quote
had the spelling "ukulele", although anyone who has a copy of Esquire
from March 1967 is welcome to prove me wrong.

PR:		bin/65626
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
2004-04-20 19:20:17 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b0487aaa20 Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering. 2004-03-22 05:02:01 +00:00
Wes Peters
b2cbee8f60 Too good to miss.
Wisdumb by:	Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
2004-02-09 18:45:25 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9c83887e23 "The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.
Spotted by:	grog
2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e65046462a typo, duh! 2004-01-13 08:00:55 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b073ad98d This is simply too true to not become a fortune.
Wisdom by:	wes
2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d910ed771d Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
few typos.
2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
41ea5e4b77 A too good Feynman quote to pass up. 2003-12-07 10:03:20 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
5645e50570 Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection. 2003-11-12 20:08:47 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b6f0aad2fb Addition. 2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
32f3fff9ac A comment about spam and cockroaches.
Suggested by:	dwmalone
2003-10-16 15:25:19 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
f8aa6f0c29 Fix typo. 2003-10-15 10:25:31 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
b3b86d2929 Retrocomputing alternate history.... 2003-10-07 15:09:19 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
42e271cf22 Remove a duplicate entry. 2003-07-25 11:14:03 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
87956a4441 Eliminate a duplicate. 2003-07-14 22:22:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
12008234da Add a quote of wpaul@ explaining the importance of including requested
content when replying to an e-mail.
2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
0eecaa8d98 Preserve an involunteerily joke SunCheckup has been providing.
(NB: the space before the colon in the second line is authentic, please
don't remove.)
2003-06-18 12:46:20 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
f7f024d9cc Fixup three rather minor typos that have irked me over time. 2003-05-31 16:27:53 +00:00
Greg Lehey
11b8cdf76c Add long-term view of astronomy.
Submitted by:	newton

The attribution appears to be correct according to
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/sagan.htm.  Others have apparently
attributed it to Carl Sagan.
2003-03-15 02:10:53 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
17d21c5710 Fix style of recent additions and sort. 2003-02-26 04:41:58 +00:00