Freebsd Fortunes

When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the
plane will fly.
                -- Donald Douglas

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most
insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are
required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and
exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is
not hereditary.
                -- Thomas Paine

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before --
except our fingertips will have been singed.
                -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of
investigation of a topic, it is well to have the answer firmly in hand,
so that you can proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or
swayed, directly to the goal.
                -- Amrom Katz

"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."

When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
                -- Harry Truman

"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
                -- Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war

When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by
asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't
know the answer either.
                -- Edgar R. Fiedler