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In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.
-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.
Find the fun and snap! The job's a game.
And every task you undertake, becomes a piece of cake,
a lark, a spree; it's very clear to see.
-- Mary Poppins
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1423 of 2327 |
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1424 of 2327 |
In fact, S. M. Simpson, eventually devised an efficient 24-point Fourier
transform, which was a precursor to the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform
in 1965. The FFT made all of Simpson's efficient autocorrelation and
spectrum programs instantly obsolete, on which he had worked half a lifetime.
-- Proc. IEEE, Sept. 1982, p.900
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1425 of 2327 |
In fiction the recourse of the powerless is murder;
in life the recourse of the powerless is petty theft.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1426 of 2327 |
In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came
for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up.
-- Pastor Martin Niemoller
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1427 of 2327 |
In God we trust; all else we walk through.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1428 of 2327 |
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker
know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?
-- Plato
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1429 of 2327 |
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
-- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Juan"
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In high school in Brooklyn
I was the baseball manager,
proud as I could be
I chased baseballs,
gathered thrown bats
handed out the towels Eventually, I bought my own
It was very important work but it was dark blue while
for a small spastic kid, the official ones were green
but I was a team member Nobody ever said anything
When the team got to me about my blue jacket;
their warm-up jackets the guys were my friends
I didn't get one Yet it hurt me all year
Only the regular team to wear that blue jacket
got these jackets, and among all those green ones
surely not a manager Even now, forty years after,
I still recall that jacket
and the memory goes on hurting.
-- Bart Lanier Safford III, "An Obscured Radiance"
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