Freebsd Fortunes 3

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
                -- Jeff Cooper

Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay,
left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate.  Using a
bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort
pushing boulders into a single word.
        It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow.
Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin
equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the
destruction of this cairn, that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass both
Parliament and Party.
        It stands today, a monument to human spirit.  If life exists on other
planets, this may be the first message received from us.
                -- The Realist, November, 1964.

Between grand theft and a legal fee, there only stands a law degree.

Between infinite and short there is a big difference.
                -- G.H. Gonnet

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
                -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man"

        [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
         referring to system service dispatching.]

BEWARE!  People acting under the influence of human nature.

Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.

Beware of a tall black man with one blond shoe.

Beware of a tall blond man with one black shoe.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather
a new wearer of clothes.
                -- Henry David Thoreau