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Poul-Henning Kamp
7954042f27 Add a delightful typographic gem I discovered on page 143 in Edward 
Tuftes book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

The constant width font does not quite do the typeset original justice,
but it is is good enough for a fortune.
 2006-10-07 08:29:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
1a0ba4525f Correct typo. 2006-09-27 19:20:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
807ee6099c Too many good quotes flying by these days. 2006-09-17 21:36:16 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
0dc7ac73d8 visionary thoughts.. 
MFC after: 1 week
 2006-08-27 14:29:10 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
776fc0e90e Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim. 
This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.

PR:		misc/101245
Submitted by:	Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfreak org>
Tested by:	md5(1)
MFC after:	1 week
 2006-08-04 07:56:35 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b4442b2c80 And now without typo. 2006-07-10 16:53:32 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
2c2ec0b614 Add a good quote that gets used a lot in the debate about global 
warming right now:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it.
                -- Upton Sinclir
 2006-07-10 16:30:46 +00:00
Mark Murray
7c92769c19 More stale maintainer. 2006-07-09 20:26:36 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
cef2c44390 +To create quality software, the ability to say no is usually far 
+more important than the ability to say yes.
+               -- Michi Henning
+%
 2006-06-20 08:34:36 +00:00
Greg Lehey
7748dfd4c0 Burying UNIX--a quote by Rob Pike, 
Seen on The UNIX Heritage Society mailing list.
 2006-06-12 23:28:52 +00:00
Philip Paeps
0b3691a359 Add two little nuggets of wisdom I picked up at work today: 
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
  soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with
  an idea. -- The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook

  and

  Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and
  bragged about forever. -- Button at the Boston Computer Museum

I wonder why people call me a cynic. ;-)
 2006-06-12 21:02:19 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e6f719c1d2 Who am I to correct the native speakers... anyway, s/council/counsel/ 
Noted by: des
 2006-06-12 13:44:17 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
2a01134cc9 Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason 
given proper legal council.

- Alfred Perlstein
 2006-06-12 07:56:33 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
fd6f84b1df Layers are for cakes, not for software. 
-- Bart Smaalders

From Performance Anti-patterns. ACM Queue 4(1):44-50. February 2006.
(Author confirmed via email that the quote is his own).
 2006-05-28 06:16:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9c7560167d In our system there's no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme 
Court decision and violent revolution.
                -- Al Gore (New York Magazine, May 29 2006)
 2006-05-25 11:21:40 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e267a10bc3 To save you all the trouble with CVSWEB: 
Peter Fellgett's wildcard recipe:
       Into a clean dish, place the dry ingredients and add the
       liquids until the right consistency is obtained. Turn out
       into suitable containers and cook until done.
 2006-05-17 11:00:49 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
63654e38ab Go figure this error... 
Submitted by: Thomas Beha
 2006-05-09 08:28:16 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
148baf2e02 Add attribution: the quote comes from Perlis's Paradigms of AI Programming 
p. 348.  See http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
 2006-04-24 12:13:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
a8b9bc3be4 Remove a corrupted fortune ending in line noise. Even googling did not 
turn up a non-corrupted version, else I would have restored it.
(No, it's not the one that uses line noise intentionally.)
 2006-04-17 12:14:46 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
26ca704dbd o s/you health/your health/. 
PR:		conf/95810
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson
 2006-04-15 17:07:32 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
6362a01f31 Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank. 
MFC after: 1 month
 2006-02-19 21:46:29 +00:00
Greg Lehey
cddfe5e9f6 Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem. 
Submitted by: Mårten Mickos
 2006-02-16 09:30:12 +00:00
Greg Lehey
8f2df498c8 Clarify time frame of jkh quote. 2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b28acf1ca5 Add wisdom from jkh. 2006-01-31 21:41:32 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
03b20b4ab1 Never do programs contain so few bugs as when no debugging tools 
are available.
                -- Niklaus Wirth

Pointed by: Panagiotis Louridas
 2006-01-28 09:19:20 +00:00
Colin Percival
6b9d644495 Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by 
system calls.
 2006-01-27 21:06:19 +00:00
Matteo Riondato
f58efa8625 Remove some duplicated entries 
PR:		conf/81924
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Approved by:	philip (mentor)
MFC after:	3 days
 2006-01-21 14:16:01 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
bb3020ee66 Correct some typos. 2005-12-26 16:09:58 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e2f9880300 We will not be responsible for damage to equipment, your ego, county wide 
power outages, spontaneously generated mini (or larger) black holes,
planetary disruptions, or personal injury or worse that may result from the
use of this material.
                -- taken from Samuel M. Goldwasser's
                   Sam's Strobe FAQ Notes on the Troubleshooting
                   and Repair of Electronic Flash Units and Strobe Lights
 2005-12-25 23:29:59 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
aefc1eb332 "A life lived in fear is a life half lived" 2005-12-24 17:55:33 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
8af06aba63 Add missing John Gilmore quote. 2005-12-12 15:47:33 +00:00
Doug Barton
dbc1cd4c36 Canonify, correct, and add citations related to Douglas Adams' work. 
Correct a quotation from Hitchhiker's.
 2005-12-05 06:47:23 +00:00
Wes Peters
e1b1e0baee Add another 'best quote about XML evar!' courtesy Pav Lucistnik (pav@) 2005-12-01 04:28:07 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
b099d1e351 correct typo 2005-11-23 09:00:35 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
1fbc4b9d85 add witty remark about serious thought. 
MFC after: 2 days
 2005-11-21 21:42:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
4450c2b741 Fix typo 2005-10-19 06:37:39 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
500ef691f8 Bruce Schneier is underrepresented in the fortune file. 2005-10-18 20:37:44 +00:00
Philip Paeps
170c211c42 Add a valuable piece of Usenet advice about storing passwords. :-) 
Obtained from:	jpd on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
 2005-10-17 14:27:37 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
4c163f4c32 Nuke duplicates found via fuzzy logic: 
- typos
- different spelling, punctuation, whitespace
- phonetically similar names
- words rearranged ("was once" vs "once was" etc)

If a limerick appeared as a single one and as part of a
double or triple, the singleton was removed.

With a little help from: sort limerick|uniq -d
This still turns up 20 lines being repeated, but the respective
limericks are sufficiently unique to leave them in (i.e. most differ
in at least two lines).

Nuke spaces in front of colons while I'm here.
 2005-09-28 18:18:29 +00:00
Kirill Ponomarev
099f27bbe8 Whitespaces cleanup. 
PR:		conf/81926
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury dot york dot ac dot uk>
 2005-09-23 12:15:52 +00:00
Doug Barton
86926e9850 Remove a fortune that is duplicated verbatim in fortunes2-o 2005-09-21 19:04:10 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
bbef66a9ae Remove a duplicate and fix a typo. 2005-09-10 08:27:07 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e37345c1c6 Notable quote by Theodore Roosevelt. 
MFC after: 3 days
 2005-09-06 14:59:55 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
0a710f3b71 Punctuation corrections. 2005-08-30 16:33:39 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
73dcba4b4b About life 2005-08-24 17:45:09 +00:00
Greg Lehey
2fa636f5fe Add relationship between offence and beer. 
Submitted by: philip
 2005-08-22 06:03:40 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
7cd5160a0b -- storage engineer on the virtues of FC-AL 2005-08-19 17:29:43 +00:00
Murray Stokely
1d449dce78 Move the "yiddish cooking has killed more jews than Hitler" quote back 
to the offensive file.

The other Hitler quotes/references stay in the unoffensive file, as
they offer more historical perspective than this one.

Approved by:	core
 2005-08-19 16:23:01 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
2ab7d9960b wisdom about 'beachhead' 2005-08-15 18:15:19 +00:00
Wes Peters
40adebe8e5 Add the best quote evar! about XML. 2005-08-14 03:49:32 +00:00