Freebsd Fortunes

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are
men who want rain without thunder and lightning.  They want the ocean
without the roar of its many waters.
                -- Frederick Douglass

Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are
the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic.  A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether --
whose existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ... A
fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any
more about the matter than the others.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.

Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so.
                -- Ford Prefect

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at
once.

'Tis the dream of each programmer,
Before his life is done,
To write three lines of APL,
And make the damn things run.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.

To be is to do.
                -- I. Kant
To do is to be.
                -- A. Sartre
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
                -- F. Flintstone

"To be responsive at this time, though I will simply say, and therefore
this is a repeat of what I said previously, that which I am unable to
offer in response is based on information available to make no such
statement."

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit,
call it the target.