Freebsd Fortunes 6

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO DESIRE IT, I GRANT YOU MADRAK'S BLESSING:

        Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care
what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you
may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.
        Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else be required
to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the
destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted
or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your
receving said benefit.
        I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between
yourself and that which may have an interest in the matter of your receving
as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may
in some way be influenced by this ceremony.
        Amen.
                -- Roger Zelazny, "Creatures of Light and Darkness"

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what
he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

To use violence is to already be defeated.
                -- Chinese proverb

To whom the mornings are like nights,
What must the midnights be!
                -- Emily Dickinson (on hacking?)

To write a sonnet you must ruthlessly
strip down your words to naked, willing flesh.
Then bind them to a metaphor or three,
and take by force a satisfying mesh.
Arrange them to your will, each foot in place.
You are the master here, and they the slaves.
Now whip them to maintain a constant pace
and rhythm as they stand in even staves.
A word that strikes no pleasure?  Cast it out!
What use are words that drive not to the heart?
A lazy phrase? Discard it, shrug off doubt,
and choose more docile words to take its part.
A well-trained sonnet lives to entertain,
by making love directly to the brain.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition.
                -- Woody Allen

Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil does proceed;
It drains your purse, it burns your clothes,
And makes a chimney of your nose.
                -- B. Waterhouse

TODAY:
        A nice place to visit, but you can't stay here for long.

Today is a good day for information-gathering.
Read someone else's mail file.