Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:26:16 +0100 (CET) From: Philipp Mergenthaler <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/45839: [PATCH] Remove some duplicate fortunes Message-ID: <200211291726.gATHQGAN042360@i609a.hadiko.de>
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>Number: 45839 >Category: misc >Synopsis: [PATCH] Remove some duplicate fortunes >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 29 09:30:01 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Philipp Mergenthaler >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany >Environment: System: FreeBSD i609a.hadiko.de 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #609: Sun Nov 24 01:08:16 CET 2002 p@i609a.hadiko.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/I609 i386 >Description: The patch fixes some typos (my->by, Maddona->Madonna, Nation->National) and removes several duplicate fortunes. I kept the ones that - had (better/more extensive) attribution (in some cases I merged the attributions) - were, when the duplicates differed slightly, the more popular version according to google - had better formatting - came first >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Index: fortunes2 =================================================================== RCS file: /ncvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2,v retrieving revision 1.49 diff -u -r1.49 fortunes2 --- fortunes2 21 Sep 2002 16:13:20 -0000 1.49 +++ fortunes2 29 Nov 2002 17:21:24 -0000 @@ -855,18 +855,6 @@ is over for today.", he said. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" % - A master was explaining the nature of the Tao to one of his novices, -"The Tao is embodied in all software -- regardless of how insignificant," -said the master. - "Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?" asked the novice. - "It is," came the reply. - "Is the Tao in a video game?" continued the novice. - "It is even in a video game," said the master. - "And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?" - The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. "The lesson is -over for today," he said. - -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" -% A MODERN FABLE Aesop's fables and other traditional children's stories involve allegory @@ -1114,7 +1102,7 @@ -- Jack Banton, PCC Automotive Electrical School % A shy teenage boy finally worked up the nerve to give a gift to -Maddona, a young puppy. It hitched its waggin' to a star. +Madonna, a young puppy. It hitched its waggin' to a star. A girl spent a couple hours on the phone talking to her two best friends, Maureen Jones, and Maureen Brown. When asked by her father why she had been on the phone so long, she responded "I heard a funny story today @@ -1881,19 +1869,6 @@ to a dead cat, do you?" -- Monty Python % - Here is the fact of the week, maybe even the fact of the month. -According to probably reliable sources, the Coca-Cola people are experiencing -severe marketing anxiety in China. - The words "Coca-Cola" translate into Chinese as either (depending -on the inflection) "wax-fattened mare" or "bite the wax tadpole". - Bite the wax tadpole. - There is a sort of rough justice, is there not? - The trouble with this fact, as lovely as it is, is that it's hard -to get a whole column out of it. I'd like to teach the world to bite a wax -tadpole. Coke -- it's the real wax-fattened mare. Not bad, but broad -satiric vistas do not open up. - -- John Carrol, The San Francisco Chronicle -% Here is the problem: for many years, the Supreme Court wrestled with the issue of pornography, until finally Associate Justice John Paul Stevens came up with the famous quotation about how he couldn't @@ -2347,6 +2322,7 @@ receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. + -- Roger Zelazny, "Creatures of Light and Darkness", 1969 % It appears that after his death, Albert Einstein found himself working as the doorkeeper at the Pearly Gates. One slow day, he @@ -2594,29 +2570,6 @@ -- Robert Fulghum, "All I ever really needed to know I learned in kindergarten" % - Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to -do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top -of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. - These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. -Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your -own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you -hurt someone. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and -cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think -some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day -some. - Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch -for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember -the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes -up and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that. -[...] - Think of what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole -world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay -down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation -and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned -up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when -you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. - -- Robert Flughum -% Mother seemed pleased by my draft notice. "Just think of all the people in England, they've chosen you, it's a great honour, son." Laughingly I felled her with a right cross. @@ -3527,24 +3480,6 @@ -- T.H. White, "The Once and Future King" % The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just -say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive -African tribes that exist by chasing the wildebeest on foot, and they have -to go around largely naked, because, as the old tribal saying goes: "N'wam -k'honi soit qui mali," which means, "If you think you can catch a wildebeest -in this climate and wear clothes at the same time, then I have some beach -front property in the desert region of Northern Mali that you may be -interested in." - So it's not considered pornographic when National Geographic publishes -color photographs of these people hunting the wildebeest naked, or pounding -one rock onto another rock for some primitive reason naked, or whatever. -But if National Geographic were to publish an article entitled "The Girls -of the California Junior College System Hunt the Wildebeest Naked," some -people would call it pornography. But others would not. And still others, -such as the Spectacularly Rev. Jerry Falwell, would get upset about seeing -the wildebeest naked. - -- Dave Barry, "Pornography" -% - The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive African tribes that exist by chasing the wildebeest on foot, and they have to go around largely naked, because, as the old tribal @@ -4094,7 +4029,7 @@ "Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to -the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited my outside +the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design." @@ -4103,25 +4038,6 @@ The programmer made no reply. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" % - There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the -warlord Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: -an accounting package or an operating system?" - "An operating system," replied the programmer. - The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an -accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating -system," he said. - "Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package, -the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: -how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to -tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outward -appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the -simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system -is easier to design." - The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well," -he said, "but which is easier to debug?" - The programmer made no reply. - -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" -% There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors. "Look at how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit, "I have my own operating system and file storage device. I do not have to @@ -7874,8 +7790,6 @@ -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four" % A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -% -A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -- O'Henry % A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature, came to Greenblatt. @@ -8355,15 +8269,10 @@ An unsuccessful attempt to find bugs. % Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western -religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic +religion; Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. -- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" % -Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western -religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of -Western science. - -- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" -% Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. @@ -8423,12 +8332,6 @@ beat up their city anytime. -- David Letterman % -According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in -America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. -Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could -beat up their city anytime. - -- David Letterman -% ACCORDION: A bagpipe with pleats. % @@ -8496,15 +8399,6 @@ an ADA awareness. -- "Datamation", January 15, 1984 % -ADA: - Something you need to know the name of to be an Expert in Computing. - Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA awareness." -% -ADA, n.: - Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in -Computing. Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA -awareness." -% Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] -- Ovid @@ -8891,12 +8785,6 @@ (2) Always be backlit. (3) Sit down whenever possible. % -Alden's Laws: - 1: Giving away baby clothes and furniture is the major cause - of pregnancy. - 2: Always be backlit. - 3: Sit down whenever possible. -% Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-null bottles of beer, You take one down, and pass it around, @@ -8914,8 +8802,6 @@ Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about. -- Philippe Schnoebelen % -Algebraic symbols are used when you don't know what you're talking about. -% Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed. -- T. Cheatham @@ -9769,12 +9655,6 @@ The grateful dead. -- Tibetan "Book of the Dead," ca. 4000 BC. % -And Bezel saideth unto Sham: `Sham,' he saideth, `Thou shalt goest -unto the town of Begorrah, and there thou shalt fetcheth unto thine -bosom 35 talents, and also shalt thou fetcheth a like number of cubits, -provideth that they are nice and fresh.' - -- Dave Barry -% And Bezel saideth unto Sham: "Sham," he saideth, "Thou shalt goest unto the town of Begorrah, and there thou shalt fetcheth unto thine bosom 35 talents, and also shalt thou fetcheth a like number of cubits, @@ -10516,9 +10396,6 @@ Are you sure the back door is locked? % "Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?" -"No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat." -% -"Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?" No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat." -- Monty Python % @@ -10662,21 +10539,11 @@ jokes about setting fire to a goat?" -- Dave Barry % -As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I -thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist. -This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - -- M. Cartmill -% As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. -- Matt Cartmill % -As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, -and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a -scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - -- M. Cartmill -% As an Englishman, an Aussie and a Scotsman are sitting in a pub, quaffing a few, three flies buzz down from the ceiling and lazily circle each drinker. Suddenly "buzzzzzzzzplooop", each fly does a kamakazi dive into a different @@ -15862,9 +15729,6 @@ -- Robert Benchley % Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. - -- Kehlog Albran -% -Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" % Even though they raised the rate for first class mail in the United @@ -16279,13 +16143,6 @@ straight lines. -- R. Buckminster Fuller % -Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less -obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no -solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There -are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no -straight lines. - -- R. Buckminster Fuller -% Everything's great in this good old world; (This is the stuff they can always use.) God's in his heaven, the hill's dew-pearled; @@ -16999,9 +16856,6 @@ For courage mounteth with occasion. -- William Shakespeare, "King John" % -For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - -- Harrison -% For every bloke who makes his mark, there's half a dozen waiting to rub it out. -- Andy Capp @@ -18219,22 +18073,14 @@ % Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything. % -FURBLING: - Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank - even when you are the only person in line. - -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends -% furbling, v: Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. - -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" + -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends % Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams % -Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - -- H.H. Williams -% Furthermore, if we send something by car, it's a shipment... but if we send it by ship, it's cargo. % @@ -18288,11 +18134,6 @@ and respect from those around you; everybody loves a sucker. A short trip is in the stars, possibly to the men's room. % -GENDERPLEX: - The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to - determine his or her designated restroom (e.g. turtles and tortoises). - -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends -% genderplex, n: The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and @@ -19259,10 +19100,6 @@ The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions. % -Hacker's Law: - The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a - nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions. -% Hackers of the world, unite! % Hacker's Quicky #313: @@ -19379,10 +19216,6 @@ There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday. % -Hanson's Treatment of Time: - There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days - before Saturday. -% Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. % happiness, adv: @@ -19431,19 +19264,6 @@ Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? -- Charlie McCarthy % -Hardware: - The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. -% -Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: "You are Yin -and I am Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast -sums of money." And so the set forth together, thinking to conquer the world. - Presently they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rage and -hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to them: "The Tao -lies beyond Yin and Yang. It is silent and still as a pool of water. It does -not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence. It does not seek fortune, -for it is complete within itself. It exists beyond space and time." - Software and Hardware, ashamed, returned to their homes. -% hardware, n: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. % @@ -23775,11 +23595,6 @@ the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves. -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends % -idiot box, n: - The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the - stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves. - -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" -% idiot, n: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. @@ -24974,9 +24789,6 @@ % If you continually give you will continually have. % -If you could only get that wonderful feeling of -accomplishment without having to accomplish anything. -% If you didn't get caught, did you really do it? % If you didn't have most of your friends, @@ -28793,9 +28605,6 @@ Kramer's Law: You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks. % -Kramer's Law: -You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track. -% KROGT: (chemical symbol: Kr) The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards. @@ -29302,14 +29111,6 @@ Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back. -- Kate Hepburn, on Tracy and Hepburn % -Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every -relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you -really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. -For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities -I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... -Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back." - -- Kate Hepburn, on Tracy and Hepburn -% Let's love each other slowly, reaching for a plane, of exquisite pleasure, @@ -29388,9 +29189,6 @@ Lieberman's Law: Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens. % -Lieberman's Law: -Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter, cuz nobody listens. -% Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys! -- Ma Barker % @@ -29889,24 +29687,8 @@ even take a swipe at you with one of its claws. Incorrigible. Pop it into the pot. Justice has been served, and shortly you and your friends will be, too. - -- Dave Barry -% -Lobster: - Everyone loves these delectable crustaceans, but many cooks are squeamish - about placing them into boiling water alive, which is the only proper - method of preparing them. Frankly, the easiest way to eliminate your - guilt is to establish theirs by putting them on trial before they're - cooked. The fact is, lobsters are among the most ferocious predators on - the sea floor, and you're helping reduce crime in the reefs. Grasp the - lobster behind the head, look it right in its unmistakably guilty - eyestalks and say, "Where were you on the night of the 21st?", then - flourish a picture of a scallop or a sole and shout, "Perhaps this will - refresh that crude neural apparatus you call a memory!" The lobster will - squirm noticeably. It may even take a swipe at you with one of its claws. - Incorrigible. Pop it into the pot. Justice has been served, and shortly - you and your friends will be, too. - -- Cooking: The Art of Turning Appliances and Utensils - into Excuses and Apologies + -- Dave Barry, Cooking: The Art of Turning Appliances + and Utensils into Excuses and Apologies % Lockwood's Long Shot: The chances of getting eaten up by a lion on Main Street @@ -30210,18 +29992,6 @@ Nibble at they tiny feet. -- Kliban % -Love to eat them mousies, -Mousies what I love to eat. -Bite they little heads off, -Nibble on they tiny feet. - -- Kliban -% -Love to eat them mousies; -Mousies what I love to eat. -Bite they tiny heads off, -Nibble on they tiny feet! - -- Kilban -% Love, which is quickly kindled in a gentle heart, seized this one for the fair form that was taken from me-and the way of it afflicts me still. @@ -31828,15 +31598,6 @@ Now begin thy magic spell! -- The Evil Queen, "Snow White" % -Mummy dust to make me old; -To shroud my clothes, the black of night; -To age my voice, an old hag's cackle; -To whiten my hair, a scream of fright; -A blast of wind to fan my hate; -A thunderbolt to mix it well -- -Now begin thy magic spell! - -- Walter Disney, "Snow White" -% Mum's the word. -- Miguel de Cervantes % @@ -34042,25 +33803,6 @@ And when it works, I shout hoo-ray Oh, I am a C programmer and I'm okay % -Oh, I am just a typical American boy -From a typical American town. -I believe in God and Senator Dodd -And keeping old Castro down. -And when it came my time to serve -I knew better dead than red, -But when I got to my old draft board, -Buddy this is what I said: - -Sarge I'm only 18, I got a ruptured spleen -And I always carry a purse; -I got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat -And my asthma's getting worse. -Yes, think of my career and my sweetheart dear -And my poor old invalid aunt; -Besides I ain't no fool I'm going to school -And I'm working in a defense plant. - -- Phil Ochs, "Draft Dodger Rag" -% Oh, I could while away the hours, Smoking herbs and flowers, Shooting up my veins, @@ -34253,11 +33995,6 @@ what it does. -- Will Rogers % -On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only -nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter -what it does. - -- The Best of Will Rogers -% On his way back from work, a driver came upon a horrible wreck in which one car looked exactly like his neighbor's. Stopping hurriedly on the side of the road, he ran toward the smoldering debris. @@ -35164,17 +34901,10 @@ % Out of the mouths of babes does often come cereal. % -Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too -dark to read. -% Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx % -Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too -dark to read. - -- Groucho Marx -% Over the shoulder supervision is more a need of the manager than the programming task. % @@ -35326,10 +35056,6 @@ in his grave if he knew about it. -- Datamation, January 15, 1984 % -Pascal: - A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his - grave if he knew about it. -% Pascal is a language for children wanting to be naughty. -- Dr. Kasi Ananthanarayanan % @@ -35945,7 +35671,7 @@ Please remain calm, it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time. % -Please stand for the Nation Anthem: +Please stand for the National Anthem: O Canada Our home and native land @@ -37849,20 +37575,6 @@ (8) Add an olive. (9) Drink... but... very carefully... % -Recipe for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster: - (1) Take the juice from one bottle of Ol' Janx Spirit - (2) Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of - Santraginus V (Oh, those Santraginean fish!) - (3) Allow 3 cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the - mixture (properly iced or the benzine is lost.) - (4) Allow four liters of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it. - (5) Over the back of a silver spoon, float a measure of - Qualactin Hypermint extract. - (6) Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve. - (7) Sprinkle Zamphuor. - (8) Add an olive. - (9) Drink... but... very carefully... -% Reclaimer, spare that tree! Take not a single bit! It used to point to me, @@ -38122,17 +37834,6 @@ and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe. % -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. -% Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. -- Oscar Wilde @@ -39200,11 +38901,6 @@ bad fiction contest. % Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken -him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of -stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. - -- Samuel Johnson -% -Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. -- Samuel Johnson @@ -41075,16 +40771,6 @@ handed the others to Dutsky. "Roll 'em," Lucci said. "Your point is thirteen." % -Ten of the meanest cons in the state pen met in the corner of the yard to -shoot some craps. The stakes were enormous, the tension palpable. - When his turn came to shoot, Dutsky nervously plunked down his -entire wad, shook the dice and rolled. A smile crossed his face as a -seven showed up, but it quickly changed to horror as third die slipped out -of his sleeve and fell to the ground with the two others. No one said a -word. Finally, Killer Lucci picked up the third die, put it in his pocket -and handed the others to Dutsky. - "Roll 'em," Lucci said. "Your point is thirteen." -% Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon I % @@ -42497,8 +42183,6 @@ The first marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence, and the second the triumph of hope over experience. % -The first myth of management is that it exists. -% The first requisite for immortality is death. -- Stanislaw Lem % @@ -42523,9 +42207,6 @@ -- H.L. Mencken % The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. - -- Ehrlich -% -The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich % The First Rule of Program Optimization: @@ -44746,14 +44427,6 @@ % The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead. % -The programmers of old were mysterious and profound. We cannot fathom their -thoughts, so all we do is describe their appearance. - Aware, like a fox crossing the water. Alert, like a general on the -battlefield. Kind, like a hostess greeting her guests. Simple, like uncarved -blocks of wood. Opaque, like black pools in darkened caves. - Who can tell the secrets of their hearts and minds? - The answer exists only in the Tao. -% The proof of the pudding is in the eating. -- Miguel de Cervantes % @@ -46357,13 +46030,6 @@ your nose and blow, it will increase your intelligence. -- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VII % -"There are those who claim that magic is like the tide; that it swells and -fades over the surface of the earth, collecting in concentrated pools here -and there, almost disappearing from other spots, leaving them parched for -wonder. There are also those who believe that if you stick your fingers up -your nose and blow, it will increase your intelligence." - -- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VII -% There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli % @@ -46672,10 +46338,7 @@ -- G.K. Chesterton % There is more to life than increasing its speed. - -- Mahatma Gandhi -% -There is more to life than increasing its speed. - -- Mohandis K. Gandhi + -- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi % There is much Obi-Wan did not tell you. -- Darth Vader @@ -46696,10 +46359,6 @@ No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth. -- Jean Giraudoux, "Tiger at the Gates" % -There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. -No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. - -- Jean Giradoux -% "There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing the rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries civilization will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements. @@ -48973,27 +48632,6 @@ And the red bank bayonne. -- Paul Kieffer % -'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves And as in uffish thought he stood -Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. The Jabberwock, with eyes aflame -All mimsy were the borogroves Came whuffling through the tulgey wood -And the mome raths outgrabe. And burbled as it came! - -"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! One! Two! One! Two! -The jaws that bite, and through and through - the claws that catch! The vorpal blade went snicker-snack. -Beware the Jubjub bird, He left it dead, and took its head, -And shun the frumious Bandersnatch!" And went galumphing back. - -He took his vorpal sword in hand "Hast thou slain the Jabberwock? -Long time the manxome foe he sought. Come to my arms, my beamish boy! -So rested he by the tumtum tree Oh frabjous day! Calooh! Callay!" -And stood awhile in thought. He chortled in his joy. - - 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves - Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. - All mimsy were the borogroves - -- Lewis Carroll -% 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! All mimsy were the borogroves The jaws that bite, the claws @@ -49951,12 +49589,6 @@ thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say socialism? -- Fidel Castro % -We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to -socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The -bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... -Did I say socialism? - -- Fidel Castro -% We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower % @@ -51571,10 +51203,6 @@ inattentions of one. -- Helen Rowland % -When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions -of many men for the inattentions of one. - Helen Rowland -% When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore. -- G.B. Shaw @@ -51670,9 +51298,6 @@ -- Mark Twain % When arguments fail, use a blackjack. - -- Ed "Spike" O'Donnell -% -When arguments fail, use a blackjack. -- Edward "Spike" O'Donnell, Al Capone associate. % When asked the definition of "pi": @@ -52356,13 +51981,6 @@ % When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. % -When you find yourself in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, -When it looks like you will take a lickin'... -There is one thing you should learn, -When there is no one else to turn to, -Caaaall for Super Chicken (**bwuck-bwuck-bwuck-bwuck**) -Caaaall for Super Chicken!! -% When you find yourself in danger, When you're threatened by a stranger, When it looks like you will take a lickin'... @@ -52372,13 +51990,6 @@ Caaaall for Super Chicken!! (**bwuck-bwuck-bwuck-bwuck**) Caaaall for Super Chicken!! % -When you find yourself in danger, -When you're threatened by a stranger, -When it looks like you will take a lickin'... -There is one thing you should learn, -When there is no one else to turn to, -Caaaaaall for Super Chicken. -% When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day, Just go to a mirror and look at yourself @@ -52686,14 +52297,6 @@ -- Robert Burns, Address on "The Rights of Woman", November 26, 1792 % -While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, -The fate of empires and the fall of kings; -While quacks of State must each produce his plan, -And even children lisp the Rights of Man; -Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, -The Rights of Woman merit some attention. - -- Robert Burns, Address on "The Rights of Woman", 1792 -% While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several. % @@ -52863,14 +52466,9 @@ Whoever dies with the most toys wins. % Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not -become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks -into you. - -- Friedrich Nietzsche -% -Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. - -- Nietzsche + -- Friedrich Nietzsche % Whoever named it "necking" was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx @@ -53268,17 +52866,6 @@ Grinning ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get about twenty-five in the city and forty on the highway." % -With the end of the football season, a star player on the college team was -celebrating the relaxation of his curfew by attending a late-night campus -party. Soon after arriving, he was captivated by a beautiful coed and -eased into a conversation with her by asking if she met many dates at -parties. - "Oh, I have a three point eight, so I'm much more attracted to the -strong academic types than to the dumb party animals," she said. "What's -you G.P.A.?" - Grinning from ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get at least -twenty-five in the city and forty on the highway!" -% With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. @@ -54132,11 +53719,6 @@ He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA. % -Yesterday upon the stair -I met a man who wasn't there. -He wasn't there again today. -I think he's from the CIA. -% Ye've also got to remember that ... respectable people do the most astonishin' things to preserve their respectability. Thank God I'm not respectable. @@ -54362,11 +53944,7 @@ % You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. - -- Hepler, CS, University of Washington -% -You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it -doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. - -- Hepler, Systems Design 182 + -- Hepler, Systems Design 182, University of Washington % You can bring men from other parts of the world who are sane. And you know what happens? At the very moment they cross those mountains... @@ -54392,11 +53970,7 @@ % You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them. Why do you find that funny? - -- D. Taylor, Computer Science 350 -% -You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them. -Why do you find that funny? - -- D. Taylor, CS, University of Washington + -- D. 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