Freebsd Fortunes

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
                -- Ogden Nash

A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
        Divided by seven,
        Plus five times eleven,
Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.

A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a
Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser.
Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network
with the mouse, and asked "what do you see?"  Very earnestly, the
Undergraduate replied "I see a cursor."  The Hacker then quickly
pressed the boot toggle at the back of the keyboard, while
simultaneously hitting the Undergraduate over the head with a thick
Interlisp Manual.  The Undergraduate was then Enlightened.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject.
                -- Winston Churchill

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block
of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an
elephant.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry.  Hence University education.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
                -- D. Gries

"A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch
dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension."
                -- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature"

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
                -- Adlai Stevenson