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Johnny Carson's Definition:
The smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs
in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the
taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1941 of 2327 |
Johnson's First Law:
When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the
most inconvenient possible time.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1942 of 2327 |
Johnson's law:
Systems resemble the organizations that create them.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1943 of 2327 |
Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy".
Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1944 of 2327 |
Join the army, see the world, meet interesting,
exciting people, and kill them.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1945 of 2327 |
Join the Navy; sail to far-off exotic lands,
meet exciting interesting people, and kill them.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1946 of 2327 |
Jones' First Law:
Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of
endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an
obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the
importance of their original contribution.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1947 of 2327 |
Jones' Second Law:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone
to blame it on.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1948 of 2327 |
Joshu: What is the true Way?
Nansen: Every way is the true Way.
J: Can I study it?
N: The more you study, the further from the Way.
J: If I don't study it, how can I know it?
N: The Way does not belong to things seen: nor to things unseen.
It does not belong to things known: nor to things unknown. Do
not seek it, study it, or name it. To find yourself on it, open
yourself as wide as the sky.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
-- Matthew Arnold
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