Freebsd Fortunes 3

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
                -- Einstein

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
                -- Weisert

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
                -- Shakespeare, "King Lear"

As for the women, though we scorn and flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.
                -- Frederic Reynolds

As Gen. de Gaulle occassionally acknowledges America to be the daughter
of Europe, so I am pleased to come to Yale, the daughter of Harvard.
                -- J.F. Kennedy

As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.

As he had feared, his orders had been forgotten and everyone had brought
the potato salad.

As I argued in "Beloved Son", a book about my son Brian and the subject of
religious communes and cults, one result of proper early instruction in the
methods of rational thought will be to make sudden mindless conversions --
to anything -- less likely.  Brian now realizes this and has, after eleven
years, left the sect he was associated with.  The problem is that once the
untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy --
and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and
high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational -- the powers of reason are
surprisingly ineffective in changing the believer's mind.
                -- Steve Allen

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very
pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!
                -- Jack Handey

As I thought, no better from this side.
                -- Eeyore