Freebsd Fortunes

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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Legalize free-enterprise murder: why should governments have all the
fun?

Legislation proposed in the Illinois State Legislature, May, 1907:
        "Speed upon county roads will be limited to ten miles an hour
unless the motorist sees a bailiff who does not appear to have had a
drink in 30 days, when the driver will be permitted to make what he
can."