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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know
anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is
a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows
up.
-- Will Rogers
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1436 of 3566 |
"I was drunk last night, crawled home across the lawn. By accident I
put the car key in the door lock. The house started up. So I figured
what the hell, and drove it around the block a few times. I thought I
should go park it in the middle of the freeway and yell at everyone to
get off my driveway."
-- Steven Wright
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1437 of 3566 |
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I
didn't know."
-- Mark Twain
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1438 of 3566 |
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreay
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1439 of 3566 |
"I was playing poker the other night ... with Tarot cards. I got a full
house and four people died."
-- Steven Wright
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1440 of 3566 |
"I went into a general store, and they wouldn't sell me anything
specific".
-- Steven Wright
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1441 of 3566 |
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 beneath the crust to be
absent -- not because I wanted to know the answer, but because I had
developed an intuitive feel for the answer in this particular case.
Finally I got a run in which the computer showed the pulsar's
temperature to be less than absolute zero. I had found an error. I
chased down the error and fixed it. Now I had improved the program to
the point where it would not run at all.
-- George Greenstein, "Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black
Holes and the Fate of Stars"
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1442 of 3566 |
"I went to a job interview the other day, the guy asked me if I had any
questions , I said yes, just one, if you're in a car traveling at the
speed of light and you turn your headlights on, does anything happen?
He said he couldn't answer that, I told him sorry, but I couldn't work
for him then.
-- Steven Wright
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1443 of 3566 |
"I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in
the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't
included."
-- Steven Wright
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Freebsd Fortunes: 1444 of 3566 |
"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the
statues that are in all the other museums."
-- Steven Wright
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