Freebsd Fortunes 5

Nirvana?  That's the place where the powers
that be and their friends hang out.
                -- Zonker Harris

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies.  You use them when you've got nothing
else to try.  If they work, they go in the Book.  Otherwise you follow
the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
                -- Larry Niven, "The Mote in God's Eye"

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
                -- Aesop

No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
                -- William Blake

no brainer:
        A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope,
        is "obvious" to those who failed to make it originally.

No character, however upright, is a match for
constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
                -- Alexander Hamilton

No Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
                -- MGM executive Irving Thalberg to Louis B. Mayer about
                   film rights to "Gone With the Wind".
                   Cerf/Navasky, "The Experts Speak"

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