Freebsd Fortunes 7

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer?
It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the
establishment of a Hilton on its peak.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
                -- Bertold Brecht

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

What is this line of duty, and suffering?  You are not supposed to suffer
if you are an assassin.  The other person is supposed to suffer.
                -- Chiun, glory of the name of Sinanju, teacher of the youth
                   from outside Sinanju named Remo.

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity.  We are all formed
of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that
is the first law of nature.
                -- Voltaire

What is truth?  We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed
to be the truth.  A lie that is put across therefore becomes the truth and
may, therefore, be justified.  The difficulty is to keep up lying... it is
simpler to tell the truth and if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one,
big thumping lie that will then be believed.
                -- Ministry of Information, memo on the maintenance of
                British civilian morale, 1939

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
                -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928

What is wanted is not the will-to-believe,
but the wish to find out, which is exact opposite.
                -- Bertrand Russell

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

What kind of sordid business are you on now?  I mean, man, whither
goest thou?  Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
                -- Jack Kerouac