Freebsd Fortunes

default, n.:
        [Possibly from Black English "De fault wid dis system is you,
mon."] The vain attempt to avoid errors by inactivity.  "Nothing will
come of nothing: speak again." -- King Lear.
                -- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"

\#define BITCOUNT(x)    (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255)
\#define  BX_(x)                ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777)                    \
                             - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333)                    \
                             - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))

                -- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word

Definitions of hardware and software for dummies:

        Hardware is what you kick;
        Software is what you curse.

Deliberation, n.:
        The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is
buttered on.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

"Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow."

Demand the establishment of the government
in its rightful home at Disneyland.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
                -- Senator Soaper

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
don't think.