Freebsd Fortunes 6

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first
and, whatever you hit, call it the target.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

To be who one is, is not to be someone else.

To be wise, the only thing you really need
to know is when to say "I don't know."

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for
you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To code the impossible code,            This is my quest --
To bring up a virgin machine,           To debug that code,
To pop out of endless recursion,        No matter how hopeless,
To grok what appears on the screen,     No matter the load,
                                        To write those routines
To right the unrightable bug,           Without question or pause,
To endlessly twiddle and thrash,        To be willing to hack FORTRAN IV
To mount the unmountable magtape,       For a heavenly cause.
To stop the unstoppable crash!          And I know if I'll only be true
                                        To this glorious quest,
And the queue will be better for this,  That my code will run CUSPy and calm,
That one man, scorned and               When it's put to the test.
        destined to lose,
Still strove with his last allocation
To scrap the unscrappable kludge!
                -- To "The Impossible Dream", from Man of La Mancha

To communicate is the beginning of understanding.
                -- AT&T

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances
may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.
                -- Joseph Glanvill, 1661

To craunch a marmoset.
                -- Pedro Carolino, "English as She is Spoke"

To criticize the incompetent is easy;
it is more difficult to criticize the competent.