Freebsd Fortunes

Noncombatant, n.:
        A dead Quaker.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.

Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations:
        Negative expectations yield negative results.
        Positive expectations yield negative results.

Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the
Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats
in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the
moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a
dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every
respect.  And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside
it, for it was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms,
then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they
chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine ...
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"

"Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none."
                -- Shakespeare

"Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper
is from the wrong kind of tree."
                -- Professor W.

Notes for a ballet, "The Spell": ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter
of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund
is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman --
unfortunately, divided lengthwise.  She enchants Sigmund, who is
careful not to make any poultry jokes ...
                -- Woody Allen

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.