Freebsd Fortunes 7

Why are you watching
The washing machine?
I love entertainment
So long as it's clean.

Professor Doberman:
        While the preceding poem is unarguably a change from the guarded
pessimism of "The Hound of Heaven," it cannot be regarded as an unqualified
improvement.  Obscurity is of value only when it tends to clarify the poetic
experience.  As much as one is compelled to admire the poem's technique, one
must question whether its byplay of complex literary allusions does not in
fact distract from the unity of the whole.  In the final analysis, one
receives the distinct impression that the poem's length could safely have
been reduced by a factor of eight or ten without sacrificing any of its
meaning.  It is to be hoped that further publication of this poem can be
suspended pending a thorough investigation of its potential subversive
implications.

Why attack God?  He may be as miserable as we are.
                -- Erik Satie

Why be a man when you can be a success?
                -- Bertolt Brecht

Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could be impossible?

Why be difficult, when, with just a little effort, you can be impossible?

Why be difficult, when, with just a
little more effort, you can be impossible?

Why bother building anymore nuclear
warheads until we use the ones we have?

Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of
movement unless it was to avoid responsibility with?

Why did the Roman Empire collapse?
What's the Latin for office automation?

Why do mathematicians insist on using words that already have another
meaning?  "It is the complex case that is easier to deal with."  "If it
doesn't happen at a corner, but at an edge, it nonetheless happens at a
corner."