From 5db1bdf8e81a18604fdbf3d6949c199cc4a912a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:15:43 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Updates fortune
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@@ -128,9 +128,7 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
Ou, citando Casa das Máquinas:
"Certo sim, seu errado, certo sim, seu errado...."
-## Unsorted
-
----
+## Latido
A mother mouse was taking her large brood for a stroll across the kitchen
floor one day when the local cat, by a feat of stealth unusual even for
@@ -146,7 +144,7 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
purposefully and declared, "You see how useful it is to know a second
language?"
----
+## Frozen Star
I went on to test the program in every way I could devise. I strained it to
expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and low-mass stars, for
@@ -160,20 +158,11 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
-- George Greenstein, "Frozen Star:
Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars"
----
+## Life
All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.
-- Dawkins
-
----
-
- Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
- And every vector dreams of matrices.
- Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
- It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
- -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
-
----
+## Man
MAN:
An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he
@@ -183,24 +172,29 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
the whole habitable earth and Canada.
-- A. Bierce
----
+## Murphy recursion
Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
----
+## Murphy as a proletarian
+
+ "Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ..."
+ -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
+
+## Civilization
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be
coming up it.
-- Henry Allen
----
+## Theories
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which
divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being
correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
-- Niels Bohr
----
+## Ginsberg's Theorem
Ginsberg's Theorem:
1. You can't win.
@@ -217,87 +211,64 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
2. Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even.
3. Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game.
----
+## Regression analysis
Regression analysis:
Mathematical techniques for trying to understand why things are
getting worse
----
+## Computer viruses
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of
life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
----
+## Inventions
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas Edison
----
+## Freud doesn't know
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not
yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the
feminine soul is: WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?
-- Sigmund Freud
----
-
- "Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ..."
- -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
-
----
+## Technology
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong
reasons. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
----
-
- Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
- Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
- Their indices bedecked from one to n,
- Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
-
- Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
- And every vector dreams of matrices.
- Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
- It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
-
- In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
- Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
- Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
- We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
- -- The Cyberiad
-
----
+## Experimentation
Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:
1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
----
+## Thermodynamics
The three laws of thermodynamics:
(1) You can't get anything without working for it.
(2) The most you can accomplish by working is to break even.
(3) You can only break even at absolute zero.
----
+## Bureaucracy
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding
bureaucracy.
----
+## Violence
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Asimov, Foundation
----
+## Freedom
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
----
+## Savings
Our congratulations go to a Burlington Vermont civilian employee of the
local Army National Guard base. He recently received a substational cash
@@ -316,21 +287,13 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
We expect annual savings to be in the billions.
-- Sojourners
----
-
- Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, white
- light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In
- a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM
- FOR THE 386.
- -- Matt Welsh
-
----
+## Loop
Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
-- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary
----
+## Good luck
An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize
winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that
@@ -344,13 +307,13 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
scarcely likely to believe in such foolish nonsense. However, I am told
that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not."
----
+## Occam
OCCAM'S ERASER:
The philosophical principle that even the simplest
solution is bound to have something wrong with it.
----
+## Obvious
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no
@@ -359,94 +322,85 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
straight lines.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
----
+## Brooke's Law
Brooke's Law:
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
discovers something which either abolishes the system or
expands it beyond recognition.
----
+## Illegal and unconstitutional
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit
longer."
-- Henry Kissinger
----
+## Banks
What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?
-- Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"
----
+## Lucky number
Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
----
-
- "A power so great, it can only be used for Good or Evil!"
- -- Firesign Theatre, "The Giant Rat of Summatra"
-
----
+## Magic
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
-- Tom Robbins
----
+## Western Civilization
Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi):
Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
----
+## Candy
Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never
tried taking candy from a baby.
-- Robin Hood
----
-
- The whole world is a tuxedo and you are a pair of brown shoes.
- -- George Gobel
-
----
+## Club
I'd never join any club that would have the likes of me as a member.
-- Groucho Marx
----
+## Science
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-- Ernest Rutherford
----
+## Government
If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined
them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government!
-- Mr. Interesting
----
+## Important things
The most important things, each person must do for himself.
----
+## Silverman's Law
Silverman's Law:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
----
+## Prophet Dirac
Dirac was a committed (Someone who denies the existence of god) atheist. After being asked about his thoughts on Dirac's views, (United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958)) Pauli remarked "If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet".
----
+
+## Inimigos
De um carro estacionado na Santa Efigenia: "Amigos vem e vão; inimigos se acumulam."
----
+## Computers
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
----
+## Law
After 35 years, I have finished a comprehensive study of European
comparative law. In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited,
@@ -458,33 +412,25 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
-- Newton Minow,
Speech to the Association of American Law Schools, 1985
----
+## Pragmatism
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little
more time for dreaming.
-- J. P. McEvoy
----
+## University
QOTD:
"A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem."
----
-
- Mathematicians often resort to something called Hilbert space, which is
- described as being n-dimensional. Like modern sex, any number can
- play.
- -- Dr. Thor Wald, in "Beep/The Quincunx of Time", by
- James Blish
-
----
+## Software and hardware
Thus spake the master programmer:
"Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software,
hardware is useless."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
----
+## Clouds
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such
a speed, if feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the
@@ -492,6 +438,8 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
+## Unsorted
+
---
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring
@@ -1669,35 +1617,12 @@ Muitas coletadas de anos usando `fortune(6)` ou encontradas ao acaso.
---
- A society that admires its shock troops had batter be bloody careful about where it's going.
- -- A Perfect Spy
-
----
-
- Intelligence is nothing if not an institutionalised black market in perishable commodities.
- -- A Perfect Spy
-
----
-
- Military intelligence has about as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do
- with music.
- -- A Perfect Spy
-
----
-
- When two people have decided to go to bed with each other, what passes between them before
- the event is a matter of form rather than of content.
- -- A Perfect Spy
-
----
+ Human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.
- Hell, Jack, we're licensed crooks, that's all I'm saying. What's our racket? Know what our racket is?
- It is to place our larcenous natures at the service of the state. So I mean why should I feel different
- about Magnus just because maybe he go the mix a little wrong? I can't.
- -- A Perfect Spy
+ -- The Shockware Rider
---
- Human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.
+ A sociedade prepara os crimes e os indivÃduos se limitam a executá-los.
- -- The Shockware Rider
+ -- Queteler apud Bakunin, A Instrução Integral, p. 86.
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