Freebsd Fortunes

Get Revenge!  Live long enough to be a problem for your children!

Ginsberg's Theorem:
        (1) You can't win.
        (2) You can't break even.
        (3) You can't even quit the game.

Freeman's Commentary on Ginsberg's theorem:
        Every major philosophy that attempts to make life seem
        meaningful is based on the negation of one part of Ginsberg's
        Theorem.  To wit:

        (1) Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win.
        (2) Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break
            even.
        (3) Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the
            game.

Give me a Plumber's friend the size of the Pittsburgh dome, and a place
to stand, and I will drain the world.

"Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war."
                -- Napolean

Give me the Luxuries, and the Hell with the Necessities!

Give thought to your reputation.  Consider changing name and moving to
a new town.

Give your child mental blocks for Christmas.

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying
around, I'd rather lie around.  No contest."
                -- Eric Clapton

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden:
Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful.  The LISP
machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
                -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability:
        Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the
probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some
useful work done.