Linux Computers

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms,
and grows in every computer.
                -- A.J. Perlis

FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers.
                -- Steven Feiner

FORTRAN rots the brain.
                -- John McQuillin

FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly
inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is
too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5

[FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade.
                -- T. Cheatham

Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!

Try:
        [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?                  (C shell)
        ^How did the^sex change operation go?   (C shell)
        "How would you rate BSD vs. System V?
        %blow                                   (C shell)
        'thou shalt not mow thy grass at 8am'   (C shell)
        got a light?                            (C shell)
        !!:Say, what do you think of margarine? (C shell)
        PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense   (Bourne shell)
        make love
        make "the perfect dry martini"
        man -kisses dog                         (anything up to 4.3BSD)
        i=Hoffa ; >$i; $i; rm $i; rm $i         (Bourne shell)

Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!

Try:
        ar t "God"
        drink < bottle; opener                  (Bourne Shell)
        cat "food in tin cans"                  (all but 4.[23]BSD)
        Hey UNIX!  Got a match?                 (V6 or C shell)
        mkdir matter; cat > matter              (Bourne Shell)
        rm God
        man: Why did you get a divorce?         (C shell)
        date me                                 (anything up to 4.3BSD)
        make "heads or tails of all this"
        who is smart
                                                (C shell)
        If I had a ) for every dollar of the national debt, what would I have?
        sleep with me                           (anything up to 4.3BSD)

fortune: cannot execute.  Out of cookies.

fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.

fortune: No such file or directory