Freebsd Fortunes

Weiler's Law:
        Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it
himself.

Weinberg's First Law:
        Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

Weinberg's Principle:
        An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while
sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Weinberg's Second Law:
        If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Weiner's Law of Libraries:
        There are no answers, only cross references.

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter.  He'll come in handy if
you run out of food.
                -- Dean McLaughlin.

"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is
no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five
hundred."
                -- The Mahabharata.

"We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later."

Well, here it is, 1983, so it won't be long before you start reading a
lot of boring stories about people like Vance Hartke.  Hartke is a
governor or mayor or something from one of the flatter states, and the
reason you'll be reading about him is that he's one of the 50 top
contenders for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination.  These men
will spend the next 18 months going around the country engaging in the
most degrading activities imaginable, such as wearing idiot hats and
appearing on "Meet the Press".  "Meet the Press" is one of those Sunday
morning public interest shows that the public is not the least bit
interested in.  It features a panel of reporters who ask questions of a
guest politician, who wins an Amana home freezer if he can get through
the entire show without answering a single question ...
                -- Dave Barry, "On Presidential Politics"

Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them
back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds,
or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they
they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
                -- President Ronald Reagan, on the MX missile