Humor: Best of Fortunes for Thursday February 23, 2006

I went on to test the program in every way I could devise...
I went on to test the program in every way I could devise. I strained it to expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and low-mass stars, for stars born exceedingly hot and those born relatively cold. I ran it assuming the superfluid currents...

A good reputation is more valuable than money...
A good reputation is more valuable than money. -- Publilius Syrus

APHASIA: Loss of speech in social scientists when...
APHASIA: Loss of speech in social scientists when asked at parties, "But of what use is your research?"

Announcing the NEW VAX 11/782!! Be the envy of other major...
Announcing the NEW VAX 11/782!! Be the envy of other major Communist Governments! Defend yourself against the entire ICBM force of the imperialist USA with just one of the processors, at the same time you're designing missile IC's, cracking secret NATO...

Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible...
Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Don't worry -- the brontosaurus is slow, stupid, and placid.
Don't worry -- the brontosaurus is slow, stupid, and placid.

Have you ever met a man of good character where women...
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? Well, I haven't. I find that whenever a woman becomes friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damn nuisance; and whenever I become friends with a woman,...

feature, n: A surprising property of a program...
feature, n: A surprising property of a program. Occasionally documented. To call a property a feature sometimes means the author did not consider that case, and the program makes an unexpected, though not necessarily...

Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly...
Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated. Practitioners must take into account the peculiar effects...

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on...
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg

If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?

1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.