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Jens Schweikhardt
e818716b66 While I find the Hitler quotes extremely questionable, I'm enough 
of a pedant to properly spell the monster's first name.
 2005-08-08 18:38:30 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6dded714b5 Snoopy in quality of life. 2005-06-10 08:58:44 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
41fa5b81d2 When operating the diopter adjustment knob with your eye to the view- 
finder, be careful not to put your fingers or fingernails in your eye.
                -- found in the users manual of the Nikon D2x camera,
                   a camera for professional photographers
%
 2005-06-06 15:43:00 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
98500a3693 Hand it to spaff, he knows how to say it: 
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging
an armoured car to deliver credit card information from someone
living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
		-- Gene Spafford, Purdue University.
 2005-05-29 19:29:19 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e1f74f27c1 Remove duplicate and attribute Weinbergs second law to the right weinberg. 2005-05-13 15:51:56 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e9a1a34366 Data is not information; 
Information is not knowledge;
	Knowledge is not wisdom
			-- Gary Flake
 2005-04-13 06:11:49 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
6f3997749c s/self-distruction/self-destruction 2005-04-10 10:53:26 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ebf3f2a194 He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without 
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light
without darkening me.
       -- Thomas Jefferson on patents on ideas.
 2005-03-22 07:41:22 +00:00
Philip Paeps
f5ba17d43b These words, while not spoken about anything even slightly related, are very, 
very applicable when waiting for world to compile *grin*

Impatience award to:	philip
 2005-03-14 21:50:25 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
abe57788f7 Remove dublicate entries and correct apostrophe abuse. 
Submitted by:	Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
 2005-03-13 13:20:07 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
f92907365d Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics. 2005-03-07 06:05:14 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
eabf308004 Another good Dijkstra quote. 2005-03-04 09:47:22 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ed4d64dbf7 Add missing quote. 2005-03-03 18:32:50 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
52b9f7a5b1 Wisdom from 1972. 2005-03-03 18:07:23 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
02d5d57aba Add a neat remark on the popular belief that the universe is a safe 
the man ought to break open and rob.
 2005-02-26 12:49:03 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f83442ac87 Keep only one style of Pittsburgh driver's tests. 
Noticed by:	Pawel Worach
 2005-02-08 10:42:22 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6325a5d282 Trim more cookies, by playing with different hash functions, 
e.g., by trimming all non-alphabet characters and whitespace,
converting to lowercase, and considering only first (or last)
N letters (maybe only consonants).  The fortune editor then
displays all fortunes that have the same hash, and allows to
remove one of them.  The rest is written to stdout.
 2005-02-07 21:00:20 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
12e13d5f73 Ignore consonants, and remove more duplicates. 2005-02-03 10:54:07 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
70ffe5d36d Removed more duplicates (forgot to ignore underscore). 2005-02-03 09:44:30 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f6f56f8b95 Keep the fortune above this. 
Reviewed by:	sheldonh
 2005-02-03 09:28:45 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
653dbafed5 Remove more duplicates. 2005-02-03 09:27:01 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
760542ba2e Ignore vowels, and remove more duplicates, mostly due to typos. 2005-02-03 09:13:02 +00:00
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