Freebsd Fortunes

Boss, n.:
        According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the Middle Ages
the words "boss" and "botch" were largely synonymous, except that boss,
in addition to meaning "a supervisor of workers" also meant "an
ornamental stud."

Boston, n.:
        Ludwig van Beethoven being jeered by 50,000 sports fans for
finishing second in the Irish jig competition.

Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System.  You couldn't pry
that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation
straightened out for a crowbar.
                -- O. W. Holmes

Boy, life takes a long time to live
                -- Steven Wright

Boy, n.:
        A noise with dirt on it.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least
when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
                -- James Thurber

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
                -- Kin Hubbard

Brace yourselves.  We're about to try something that borders on the
unique: an actually rather serious technical book which is not only
(gasp) vehemently anti-Solemn, but also (shudder) takes sides.  I tend
to think of it as `Constructive Snottiness.'
                -- Mike Padlipsky, Foreword to "Elements of Networking
                   Style"

Bradley's Bromide:
        If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a
committee -- that will do them in.

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving:
        When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more
easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have
handled this?"