Freebsd Fortunes 4

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
                -- W. Churchill, on General Montgomery

In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, delve deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In work, be competent.
In action, be careful of your timing.
                -- Lao Tsu

In English, every word can be verbed.  Would that it were so in our
programming languages.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
                -- Thomas Jefferson

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.
                -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.
Find the fun and snap!  The job's a game.
And every task you undertake, becomes a piece of cake,
        a lark, a spree; it's very clear to see.
                -- Mary Poppins

In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.

In fact, S. M. Simpson, eventually devised an efficient 24-point Fourier
transform, which was a precursor to the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform
in 1965.  The FFT made all of Simpson's efficient autocorrelation and
spectrum programs instantly obsolete, on which he had worked half a lifetime.
                -- Proc. IEEE, Sept. 1982, p.900

In fiction the recourse of the powerless is murder;
in life the recourse of the powerless is petty theft.