Freebsd Fortunes 6

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The price of success in philosophy is triviality.
                -- C. Glymour.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
                -- James Baldwin

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things
difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants;
instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the
variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead
of the longer form of the constant.  This also simplifies modifying the
program, should the value of pi change.
                -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers

The primary theme of SoupCon is communication.  The acronym "LEO"
represents the secondary theme:

        Law Enforcement Officials

The overall theme of SoupCon shall be:

        Avoiding Communication with Law Enforcement Officials
                -- M. Gallaher

The probability of someone watching you is directly
proportional to the stupidity of your action.

The problem that we thought was a problem was, indeed,
a problem, but not the problem we thought was the problem.
                -- Mike Smith

The problem with any unwritten law is that
you don't know where to go to erase it.
                -- Glaser and Way

The problem with graduate students, in general, is that they have
to sleep every few days.