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It is possible by ingenuity and at the expense of clarity... {to do almost
anything in any language}. However, the fact that it is possible to push
a pea up a mountain with your nose does not mean that this is a sensible
way of getting it there. Each of these techniques of language extension
should be used in its proper place.
-- Christopher Strachey
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1712 of 2327 |
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
-- Maimie Van Doren
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1713 of 2327 |
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that
have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are
mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1714 of 2327 |
It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat
rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they
kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.
-- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1715 of 2327 |
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,
his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the
worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one
day like any other day, only shorter.
-- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1716 of 2327 |
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a
sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate
in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this,
too, shall pass away."
-- A. Lincoln
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1717 of 2327 |
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the
lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as
high as the eagle?
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1718 of 2327 |
It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for.
-- Epitaph, Cheltenham Churchyard
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1719 of 2327 |
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the
devil when he is the only explanation of it.
-- Ronald Knox, "Let Dons Delight"
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1720 of 2327 |
It is so very hard to be an on-your-own-take-care-of-
yourself-because-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown up.
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