Freebsd Fortunes

Maier's Law:
        If the facts don't conform to the theory, they must be disposed
        of.

Corollaries:
        (1) The bigger the theory, the better.
        (2) The experiment may be considered a success if no more than
            50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to
            obtain a correspondence with the theory.

Main's Law:
        For every action there is an equal and opposite government
program.

Maintainer's Motto:
        If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.

Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly
        as one man.

Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds.

Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Majority, n.:
        That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.

Make it myself?  But I'm a physical organic chemist!

Making files is easy under the UNIX operating system.  Therefore, users
tend to create numerous files using large amounts of file space.  It
has been said that the only standard thing about all UNIX systems is
the message-of-the-day telling users to clean up their files.
                -- System V.2 administrator's guide

Malek's Law:
        Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

Man 1:  Ask me.  "What is the most important thing about telling a good
        joke?"

Man 2:  OK, what is the most impo --

Man 1:  TIMING!

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
                -- Lily Tomlin