Fortune Quotes
The UNIX fortune(6) program has all sorts of cool quotes. Here are some of my favorites:
- An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
- --Jef Mallett
- There are but two kinds of pain in this world. The pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Now choose.
- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
- God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?
- If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- - James Madison
- I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
- A wise man knows everything, a shrewd man knows everybody.
- The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
- guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be particular about who it makes friends with.
- GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
- What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
- I don't have a microwave. I do, however, have a clock that occasionally cooks shit.
- "Heavenly Father, I wish to file a Bug Report..."
- People who need govt to enforce their religion must not have much faith in the power of its message.
- "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- -Albert Einstein
- Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
- "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- ~Plato (427-347 BC)
- The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended.
- (Rowan Atkinson)
- "God is dead" - Nietzsche, 1882. "Nietzsche is dead" - God, 1900
- I've noticed even people who believe in destiny and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road
- If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read.
- - Japanese proverb
- Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
- --Ronald Reagan
- [ ]Half Empty [ ]Half Full [x]Twice as big as it needs to be
- "Never smoked pot, but I have set fire to a frying pan." -jd
- Science? Religion? I'm listening to the guy with the lens in a tube rather than the guy with the corpse on a stick
- If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
- "Those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat it." -R. Scott McNulty
- "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- -Carl Sagan
- Support bacteria. It's the only culture some people have.
- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
- - Mark Twain
- If the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.
- Benjamin R. Tucker
- "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"
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