Linux Literature

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
                -- Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
                -- Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
                -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

For a light heart lives long.
                -- Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

For courage mounteth with occasion.
                -- William Shakespeare, "King John"

For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels,
each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall
was a gate.
                -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"

        [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
         referring to system overview.]

For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel.  And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
                -- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

        [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
         referring to powerfail recovery.]

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace--
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
                -- Justin Richardson.

Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
                -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Gone With The Wind LITE(tm)
        -- by Margaret Mitchell

        A woman only likes men she can't have and the South gets trashed.

Gift of the Magi LITE(tm)
        -- by O. Henry

        A husband and wife forget to register their gift preferences.

The Old Man and the Sea LITE(tm)
        -- by Ernest Hemingway

        An old man goes fishing, but doesn't have much luck.

Diary of a Young Girl LITE(tm)
        -- by Anne Frank

        A young girl hides in an attic but is discovered.