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Josef El-Rayes
87695ac7ae There is a better way to find out whether a port is installed or not. 2005-01-03 14:17:23 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
895e960f4c Correct two typos; remove a duplicate. 2004-12-30 12:18:30 +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
Jens Schweikhardt
cc00e79feb s/Here about/Hear about/ and sort accordingly. 2004-11-12 10:15:43 +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
Wilko Bulte
fa38f371c8 The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its 
thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools. - Thucydides
 2004-09-29 19:52:19 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
aaa7f2858e Fix make search entries. 
PR:		docs/70899
Submitted by:	Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
 2004-08-24 11:30:28 +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
Jens Schweikhardt
29cf807a18 Correct grammo. 2004-08-14 06:29:17 +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
e231995bb9 Fix typos. 
PR:            misc/67586
Submitted by:  Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net>
 2004-07-20 08:32:42 +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
Lukas Ertl
efd0e5f49e Remove duplicate fortunes and fix some typos. 
PR:            misc/45839
Submitted by:  Philipp Mergenthaler
               <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
 2004-07-20 08:19:51 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
e60883c5a2 Add a Nicollism. 2004-06-24 03:08:44 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
cad27670ff Correct assorted typos and grammos. 2004-06-10 21:03:34 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fb86d10eff Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman. 2004-06-01 09:45:16 +00:00
Doug Barton
f4d7361ecf Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entry 
by using the text from the Villard Books edition (1989, pages 6 through
8) and formatting to fit in 72 columns.
 2004-06-01 05:00:46 +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
Doug Barton
7934cbe0d3 Remove duplicates of the "wherever you go, there you are" fortune, 
quote directly from the movie, and give a better attribution (with
correct spelling) for Buckaroo Banzai.
 2004-06-01 00:16:32 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
7aab90d5f7 Definition of recursion. 2004-05-25 19:15:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
3231abbd6d Added forgotten quotes for citations. 2004-05-20 08:15:58 +00:00
Tony Finch
a27113d965 I *knew* it would be a bad idea to touch the fortunes. *sigh* 
Submitted by:	Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to:	me, again
 2004-05-11 17:43:36 +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
Sean Kelly
57268cd141 Add a new fortune from petef. 
Obtained from: petef
 2004-04-29 04:36:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
4bb464ddb9 Add jerk city commentary on C++. 2004-04-27 22:32:02 +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
Colin Percival
25f718f0b7 Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR has 
a patch to mention portupgrade in freebsd-tips as well; I'm not
sure if that belongs here, so I'll leave it for someone else.

PR:		misc/37073
Submitted by:	Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Approved by:	rwatson (mentor)
 2004-02-18 05:18:27 +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
Marc Fonvieille
cf8dceeb43 Add a tip on how to print a manual page. 
PR:		docs/61033
Submitted by:	mi@
 2004-01-07 19:49:12 +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
Wilko Bulte
094e585d1c reformat HP eng. mgr quote 
Requested by: nate
 2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
92797e8470 Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'. 
PR:		58909
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after:	1 week
 2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b6f0aad2fb Addition. 2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00