Freebsd Fortunes

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
                -- Henri Poincair'e

Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
                -- William Buckley

SCORPIO (Oct 23 - Nov 21)
        You are shrewd in business and cannot be trusted.  You will
        achieve the pinnacle of success because of your total lack of
        ethics.  Most Scorpio people are murdered.

Scott's first Law:
        No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.

Scott's second Law:
        When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found
to have been wrong in the first place.

Corollary:
        After the correction has been found in error, it will be
impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Scotty: Captain, we din' can reference it!
Kirk:   Analysis, Mr. Spock?
Spock:  Captain, it doesn't appear in the symbol table.
Kirk:   Then it's of external origin?
Spock:  Affirmative.
Kirk:   Mr. Sulu, go to pass two.
Sulu:   Aye aye, sir, going to pass two.

Screw up your courage!  You've screwed up everything else.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the
Presidency.
                -- Richard Nixon

Second Law of Business Meetings:
        If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
will pick the wrong one.

Corollary:
        If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
wrong, anyway.