Freebsd Fortunes 5

Progress means replacing a theory that
is wrong with one more subtly wrong.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
                -- Ogden Nash

Progress was all right.  Only it went on too long.
                -- James Thurber

Promise her anything, but give her Exxon unleaded.

Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.

PROMOTION FROM WITHIN:
        A system of moving incompetents up to the policy-making
        level where they can't foul up operations.

Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword.

Proof techniques #1: Proof by Induction.

This technique is used on equations with 'n' in them.  Induction
techniques are very popular, even the military use them.

SAMPLE:  Proof of induction without proof of induction.

        We know it's true for n equal to 1.  Now assume that it's true
for every natural number less than n.  N is arbitrary, so we can take n
as large as we want.  If n is sufficiently large, the case of n+1 is
trivially equivalent, so the only important n are n less than n.  We can
take n = n (from above), so it's true for n+1 because it's just about n.
        QED.    (QED translates from the Latin as "So what?")

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days,
but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
                -- Darrell Huff

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
                -- Publilius Syrus