Freebsd Fortunes 7

We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
                -- Sir Francis Bacon

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
                -- Calvin Coolidge

We could do that, but it would be wrong, that's for sure.
                -- Richard Nixon

We could nuke Baghdad into glass, wipe it with Windex, tie fatback on our
feet and go skating.
                -- Fred Reed, Air Force Times columnist.

We dedicate this book to our fellow citizens who, for love of truth,
take from their own wants by taxes and gifts, and now and then send
forth one of themselves as dedicated servant, to forward the search
into the mysteries and marvelous simplicities of this strange and
beautiful Universe, Our home.
                -- "Gravitation", Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
                -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

We don't care.  We don't have to.  We're the Phone Company.

We don't care how they do it in New York.

We don't have to protect the environment -- the Second Coming is at hand.
                -- James Watt, noted theologian