Freebsd Fortunes 6

The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us will go to the stars.

The meek shall inherit the Earth.
(But they're gonna have to fight for it.)

The meek will inherit the earth -- if that's OK with you.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two
chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
                -- Carl Jung

[The members of the Chamberlain government] are decided only to be
undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, all-powerful
for impotency.
                -- W. Churchill

The men sat sipping their tea in silence.  After a while the klutz said,
        "Life is like a bowl of sour cream."
        "Like a bowl of sour cream?" asked the other.  "Why?"
        "How should I know?  What am I, a philosopher?"

The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another
mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same
being who produces the impressions.
                -- Marquis D.A.F. de Sade

The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be
general systems laws.  For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that
any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby
not to be a science.  He would cite as examples Military Science, Library
Science, Political Science, Homemaking Science, Social Science, and Computer
Science.  Discuss the generality of this law, and possible reasons for its
predictive power.
                -- Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems
                   Thinking"

The Modelski Chain Rule:
1:      Look intently at the problem for several minutes.  Scratch your
        head at 20-30 second intervals.  Try solving the problem on your
        Hewlett-Packard.
2:      Failing this, look around at the class.  Select a particularly
        bright-looking individual.
3:      Procure a large chain.
4:      Walk over to the selected student and threaten to beat him severely
        with the chain unless he gives you the answer to the problem.
        Generally, he will.  It may also be a good idea to give him a sound
        thrashing anyway, just to show you mean business.