Linux Wisdom

When the wind is great, bow before it;
when the wind is heavy, yield to it.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later
something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend
your parents' limitations...  At the same time, you feel sure that in all
the wilderness of possibility; in all the forests of opinion, there is a
vital something that can be known -- known and grasped.  That we will
eventually know it, and convert the whole mystery into a coherent
narrative.  So that then one's true life -- the point of everything --
will emerge from the mist into a pure light, into total comprehension.
But it isn't like that at all.  But if it isn't, where did the idea come
from, to torture and unsettle us?
                -- Brian Aldiss, "Helliconia Summer"

When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.
                -- Brooke Shields

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
                -- Lao Tsu

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
                -- J. Winter Smith

Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list.

[Wisdom] is a tree of life to those laying
hold of her, making happy each one holding her fast.
                -- Proverbs 3:18, NSV

With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
                -- Socrates, quoting Plato
        [Huh?  That's like Johnson quoting Boswell]

        Work Hard.
        Rock Hard.
        Eat Hard.
        Sleep Hard.
        Grow Big.
        Wear Glasses If You Need 'Em.
                -- The Webb Wilder Credo