Freebsd Fortunes

A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.

A lady with one of her ears applied
To an open keyhole heard, inside,
Two female gossips in converse free --
The subject engaging them was she.
"I think", said one, "and my husband thinks
That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!"
As soon as no more of it she could hear
The lady, indignant, removed her ear.
"I will not stay," she said with a pout,
"To hear my character lied about!"
                -- Gopete Sherany

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
not worth knowing.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program
in than some that do.
                -- Dennis M. Ritchie

A large number of installed systems work by fiat.  That is, they work
by being declared to work.
                -- Anatol Holt

A Law of Computer Programming:
        Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you
will find the programmers cannot write in English.

A limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
        But the good ones I've seen
        So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of
nothing.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
                -- H. H. Munroe

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America.