Freebsd Fortunes

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is
not hereditary.
                -- Thomas Paine

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before --
except our fingertips will have been singed.
                -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of
investigation of a topic, it is well to have the answer firmly in hand,
so that you can proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or
swayed, directly to the goal.
                -- Amrom Katz

"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."

When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
                -- Harry Truman

"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
                -- Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war

When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by
asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't
know the answer either.
                -- Edgar R. Fiedler

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

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