Humor: Best of Fortunes for Saturday January 6, 2024

One of the questions that comes up all the time is:...
One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs...

Imbalance of power corrupts and monopoly of power corrupts...
Imbalance of power corrupts and monopoly of power corrupts absolutely. -- Genji

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages...
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more "user-friendly". ... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, "user-friendly" on the cover. -- Bill...

A certain young man, it was noted, Went about in the heat...
A certain young man, it was noted, Went about in the heat thickly-coated; He said, "You may scoff, But I shan't take it off; Underneath I am horribly bloated." -- Edward Gorey

There once was a young fellow named Blaine, And he screwed some...
There once was a young fellow named Blaine, And he screwed some disgusting old jane. She was ugly and smelly, With an awful pot-belly, But... well, they were caught in the rain.

There once was an Arpanet freak, Who better response-time...
There once was an Arpanet freak, Who better response-time did seek. He searched coast to coast, For a reliable host, Whose logger took less than a week.

There was a young fellow of Warwick Who had reason for feeling...
There was a young fellow of Warwick Who had reason for feeling euphoric, For he could by election Have triune erection: Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric.

There was a young man who said "God, I find it exceedingly...
There was a young man who said "God, I find it exceedingly odd, That the willow oak tree Continues to be, When there's no one about in the Quad." "Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd, For I'm always about in the Quad; ...

I dote on his very absence. -- William...
I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

In most countries selling harmful things like drugs...
In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished?