Freebsd Fortunes

The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going
down.

The cow is nothing but a machine with makes grass fit for us people to
eat.
                -- John McNulty

The Crown is full of it!
                -- Nate Harris, 1775

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should
therefore be hushed.  A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could
hardly be propagated.  If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to
declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny ...  In war,
then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press.
Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.
                -- William Ellery Channing

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of
us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching
Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.

The debate rages on: Is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity?  If Gladstone fell
into the Thames, it would be a misfortune.  But if someone dragged him
out again, it would be a calamity."
                -- Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science
requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require
scholarship.
                -- Robert Heinlein