Freebsd Fortunes

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
                -- Victor Borge

Law of Communications:
        The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications
between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of
misunderstanding.

Law of Probable Dispersal:
        Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly
distributed.

Law of Selective Gravity:
        An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

Jenning's Corollary:
        The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is
directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Law of the Perversity of Nature:
        You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the
bread to butter.

Laws of Serendipity:

        (1) In order to discover anything, you must be looking for
            something.
        (2) If you wish to make an improved product, you must already
            be engaged in making an inferior one.

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom:
        No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --
approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and
everything else follows in the same way.
                -- Alan J. Perlis