Freebsd Fortunes 6

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
                -- Sagan

The University of California Bears announced the signing of Reggie
Philbin to a letter of intent to attend Cal next Fall.  Philbin is
said to make up for no talent by cheating well.  Says Philbin of
his decision to attend Cal, "I'm in it for the free ride."

The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal,
and deviation standard.

The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to
hang yourself.  And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable
that I assume it must be evil.
                -- Heywood Broun

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and
religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging
from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its
yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledegook than the rest of the
world put together.
                -- Sir Peter Medawar

The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems
is a symptom of professional immaturity.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5

The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.
                -- B. Franklin

The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.