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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:07:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
Message-ID:  <20041022140435.T44103@xeon.unixathome.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041022175953.GA53879@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <200410221618.i9MGIGfh017734@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041022175953.GA53879@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:18:16PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote..
> > phk         2004-10-22 16:18:16 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
> >   Log:
> >   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.
>
> Trusting economists is like trusting Microsoft to write bugfree software

I could not find a reference to the quote in Google, but I did find:

  [20] "The market has anticipated 12 of the last 9 recessions"

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_02/cortes012402.html

-- 
Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/



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