Freebsd Fortunes

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

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than
he could be elected Pope of Rome.  Both high posts are reserved for men
favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter
facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
                -- H. L. Mencken

A general leading the State Department resembles  a dragon commanding
ducks.
                -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981