Freebsd Fortunes 4

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.

In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.  Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.  Then they came
for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up.
                -- Pastor Martin Niemoller

In God we trust; all else we walk through.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker
know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?
                -- Plato