Linux Platitudes

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
                -- Proverbs, 26:5

Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche --
a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea.  For instance, my
grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence."
I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
                -- Solomon Short

Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
                -- Sydney J. Harris

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
                -- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"

Anything is possible on paper.
                -- Ron McAfee

Anything is possible, unless it's not.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently.  Things hitherto
undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
                -- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.
                -- Miguel de Cervantes

Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, and you will pay only the station-to-station
rate.
                -- Howard Kandel