Linux Wisdom

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to
know the answers.
                -- Gene Wolfe, "The Claw of the Conciliator"

Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser.  But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
                -- The Mahabharata

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
                -- Titus Lucretius Carus

Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.
                -- Howard Chaykin

Certainly the game is rigged.

Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
                -- Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.
                -- Anatole France

                        Chapter 1

The story so far:

        In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made a lot
of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
                -- Douglas Adams?

        "Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I
ought to go from here?"
        "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
        "I don't care much where--" said Alice.
        "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
                -- Herodotus

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
                -- G.K. Chesterton