Freebsd Fortunes 7

When you make your mark in the world,
watch out for guys with erasers.
                -- The Wall Street Journal

When you meet a master swordsman,
show him your sword.
When you meet a man who is not a poet,
do not show him your poem.
                -- Rinzai, ninth century Zen master

When you overesteem great hackers,
more users become cretins.
When you develop encryption,
more users become crackers.

The Guru leads
by emptying user's minds
and increasing their quotas,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
When users lack knowledge and desire,
management will not try to interfere.

Practice not-looping,
and everything will fall into place.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that
you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
                -- Otto Von Bismarck

When you speak to others for their own good it's advice;
when they speak to you for your own good it's interference.

When you try to make an impression, the
chances are that is the impression you will make.

When you were born, a big chance was taken for you.

When your conscious becomes unconscious, you are drunk.
When your unconscious becomes conscious, you are stoned.

When your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
                -- Leonard Cohen, "Sisters of Mercy"

When your memory goes, forget it!