| login: |
| case '\7': *((char *)(384*1024L+062)) = 2; /* beep */ |
| Welcome to VAX/VMS Version 1.60 |
| ON ENDFILE(SYSIN) GO TO ADATHIBA; /* FILE-VEGE VIZSGALATA */ |
| Tape dump of all filesystems taken this afternoon. |
| "Analysis" is "design" spelled backwards. |
| "RULE 7: Option arguments cannot be optional." Sys V Interface p 343. |
| "Sound advice" is usually mostly sound with not much advice. |
| "The Dresser," first a play, then a movie, then AT&T headquarters. |
| "The more you drive ... the less intelligent you are." -- Miller, in Repo Man |
| "x.c", line 1: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye! |
| #(cat probably won't work on 8 bit files, you will have to use a simpler filter) |
| $! nulled, predecessor circle |
| $3,000,000 |
| %-W-NORML Normal Successful Completion |
| 'Tis a gross error, held in schools, That Fortune always favours fools. - John Gay. |
| 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp,/Than with an old one dying. |
| 'Tis nobler in the mind to Look Things Up than to Pull Them Out Of The Air. |
| (^|[ (,;])(([Jj]ul[^ ]* *|(07|7)/)0*5)([^0123456789]|$) |
| * UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories. |
| *** LGP ERROR ***: Initialize -- Cannot initialize graphics hardware device. |
| *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** |
| -1: No code table for op: ++post |
| ...and on the seventh day, He exited from append mode. |
| /usr/games/fortune: not found |
| /usr/news/gotcha |
| 1 bulls, 3 cows |
| 127 now in the unregulated subsidiary; see /usr/news/btl-split |
| 2 is always smaller than 3, even for large values of 2. |
| 2 lacks generality in a way that 1 doesn't. |
| 23. ... r-q1 |
| 355/113 -- not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation. |
| 4.2BSD is like a nightmare about Tenex. - Geoff Collyer |
| 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one. |
| 55mph -- It's not a good idea, it's just the law. |
| : is not an identifier |
| A 10.0-szer 0.1 sohasem 1.0! |
| A 6-char limit is like a 6-inch trout: throw it back. |
| A 6-char limit is like night. |
| A Cray is the best machine for simulating the performance of a Cray. |
| A Point is a pair of shorts. |
| A Smith and Wesson beats four aces. |
| A bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
| A big book is a big nuisance. - Callimachus, librarian of Alexandria |
| A billion here, a billion there; soon you're talking real money. -E. Dirksen |
| A bird in hand is safer than one overhead. |
| A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. |
| A block grant is a nice terminal, but it will keep you awake until noon. |
| A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors. |
| A chicken is just an egg's way of making more eggs. |
| A closed mouth gathers no foot. |
| A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. |
| A consistent indentation style is the hobgoblin of little minds. |
| A couch is as good as a chair. |
| A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. |
| A critic is a legless man who teaches running. |
| A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it? |
| A day without sunshine is like night. |
| A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the sun god. |
| A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the turkey. |
| A fly by night leaves no shadow beyond a doubt. |
| A fool and his money stabilize the economy. |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. |
| A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Domine! |
| A game, a teaching aid, a sport, and a piece of art. -Erno Rubik |
| A gentleman is one who is never rude unintentionally. -Noel Coward |
| A good memory does not equal pale ink. |
| A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. |
| A goodly apple rotten at the heart:/Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! |
| A hacker does for love what others would not do for money. |
| A homeowner's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a weekend for? |
| A hydrogen bomb doesn't care how brave you are. |
| A hypothesis is an opinion that you are trying to prove true. |
| A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance from Sam. |
| A king's castle is his home. |
| A liberal is one too open-minded to take his own side in an argument. |
| A lone dime always gets the number nearly right. |
| A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. -Stephen Jay Gould |
| A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him. -Mong Tse |
| A man who fishes for marlin in ponds will put his money in Etruscan bonds. |
| A man who turns green has eschewed protein. |
| A man with 3 wings and a dictionary is cousin to the turkey. |
| A man without a faith is like a fish without a bicycle. |
| A megabyte here, a megabyte there, and pretty soon you're talking real power. |
| A megaflop is a failure of gigantic proportions. |
| A mighty maze! but not without a plan. -Pope |
| A more wretched hive of scum and villainy: not found. |
| A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had. -Orson Welles |
| A penny saved is a political breakthrough. |
| A penny saved is ridiculous. |
| A penny saved kills your career in the Pentagon. |
| A philosopher does not need a torch to gather glow-worms by at mid-day. -- Earnest Bramah |
| A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. |
| A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs. |
| A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. |
| A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. |
| A radical is a person with both feet firmly planted in the air. |
| A real Initiation never ends. -Aleister Crowley |
| A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -Edgar Watson Howe |
| A recently completed trial proved TOAD Generic 1 to be reliable, user-friendly, and convenient. |
| A resort area will be part of your next holiday plans |
| A rolling stone gathers momentum. |
| A rose by any other name would still have thorns. |
| A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. -W. Irving |
| A song in time is worth a dime. |
| A stitch in time keeps your tu-tu from becoming a four-four. |
| A system programmer is someone who debugs his programs with an oscilloscope. |
| A theory is better than an explanation. |
| A thousand throats may be slit in one night by a running man. |
| A tree is best measured when it is down. |
| A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn. |
| A twisting road will take you to Warsaw, but you won't be bored. |
| A u.f.o. closely encountered is no longer a u.f.o. |
| A victory is the greatest tragedy in the world - except a defeat. -Wellington |
| A watched terminal never prints. |
| A wise man never tries to warm himself in front of a painting of a fire. |
| A witty saying means nothing. -Voltaire |
| A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. -Rudyard Kipling |
| A578 Your FLP overflows into your KBUF. |
| AAAOO OOZOR AZZAZ ZAIEO AZAEI IIOZA KHOEO OOYTH OEAZA EAOOZ AKHOZ AKHEY THXAA LETHX KH |
| Ablata at alba. |
| Abortion and suicide are hereditary only if you prevent them. |
| About all some parents accomplish in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. |
| About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. |
| About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. |
| Absence is better than a cure. |
| Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. |
| According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are worthless. |
| Accounting software is structured as a set of tools that can be used to build accounting systems. |
| Ad pulchritudinem tria requiruntur; integritas, consonantia, claritas. -Aquinas |
| Admiration is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. |
| After 24 hours, corpses and guests smell bad. |
| After all, a murderer is only an extroverted suicide. |
| Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. |
| Again, and strongly, undress the sheep. It is getting to visitors. |
| All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly aurifers. |
| All dare to write, who can or cannot read. -Horace, `Epistles', Book II |
| All my men wear badges, or they wear nothing at all. |
| All of the bridges between our today and our yesteryear have been burnt. |
| All of these futures having been sold, this fortune appears as a matter of record only. |
| All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism. |
| All that does not glitter is not not-gold. |
| All the ethics in Hollywood can be rolled up and fit into a gnat's navel. |
| All the good ones are taken. |
| All the great men are dead and I'm not feeling too well myself. |
| All things considered, life is 9-to-5 against. |
| All things that are, are lights. |
| All you need to know is in the manual. |
| Almost all good computer programs contain at least one random-number generator. |
| Always keep a record of data. It indicates you've been working. |
| Always make water when you can. -Wellington |
| America's best buy for a dime is a telephone call to the right person. |
| An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. |
| An airplane is in your future. |
| An artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs. - Varese |
| An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. |
| An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support. |
| An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. |
| An elephant is a mouse with an operating system. |
| An idle mind is worth two in the bush. |
| An oscilloscope is what cavemen used to debug fire. -Jim Veres |
| An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. |
| And I alone am returned to wag the tail. |
| And malt does more than Milton can/to justify God's ways to man -A.E. Housman |
| And so to bed. |
| Androgyny recapitulates philately. |
| Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree. |
| Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences you don't like. |
| Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an *art*. -Chas. McCabe |
| Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. |
| Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it. |
| Any man's speeding ticket on the Interstate diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. |
| Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object. |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Clarke |
| Anyone can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. |
| Anyone who buys Wisconsin cheese is a traitor to mankind! -J. Pournelle |
| Anyone who understands my music will never be unhappy again. -L. Van Beethoven |
| Anyone's life is incomplete unless they are, in some smaller or larger way, saving the world. |
| Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. |
| Arabic is a language, Persian is a sweetmeat, and Turkish is an art. |
| Arabic is a mystery -- love is just a crock. |
| Are we not men? |
| Are you kidding? |
| Are you sure you want a two dimensional array? |
| Aren't you glad his name wasn't Alexander Graham Klaxon? |
| Aries -- this is your lucky day! |
| Art is merely cheese made visible. |
| Artistic ventures highlighted. Rob a museum. |
| As above, so below. |
| As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote. |
| As of Tuesday, C will be flushed in favor of COBOL. Please update all programs. |
| Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
| At the feast of souls failure is always the guest of honor. |
| Attend winter sheep meetings. Learning never ends! |
| Auribus teneo lupum. |
| Automating a mess yields an automated mess. -Michael Hammer |
| Ave discordia. |
| Avoid a hasty decision. |
| Avoid reality at all costs. |
| Away put your weapon! I mean you no harm. |
| BLISS is ignorance. |
| Bad taste is timeless. |
| Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare. |
| Bank error in your favor. Collect $200. |
| Basic is like doing arithmetic with Roman numerals. - MD McIlroy |
| Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio. |
| Be the sea, and see me be. |
| Beauty is only sin deep. H H Munro |
| Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. |
| Beauty times brains equals a constant. |
| Becoming an overnight success usually takes years. |
| Been Transferred Lately? |
| Better be right or your big venture goes wrong. -Resistor color code mnemonic |
| Better to have failed your Wasserman than never to have loved at all. |
| Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act falls the shadow. |
| Beware -- local customs vary. Check with a native before going into the jungle. |
| Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie. |
| Beware of low-flying butterflies. |
| Beware the foot of Nessus! |
| Beware: the light at the end of the tunnel may be New Jersey. |
| Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous Initiation. |
| Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. |
| Biggus Diggus wants YOU. |
| Bignose from Winnetka. |
| Blessed St. Leibowitz, let them keep on dreamin' down there... |
| Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth. |
| Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, for they Shall be Known as Wheels. |
| Bosses never realize that a bottle neck is always at the top. |
| Bourne again. |
| Brain fried -- core dumped |
| Brashith Alhim |
| Bring your wife or husband and pink slip for the best trade-in deal in town. |
| Bubble bubble, toil and trouble; cast that float into a double. |
| Buick offers inbred american quality. -TV ad |
| Build a better mousetrap, and nature will build a better mouse. |
| Build it so that even a fool can use it, and only a fool will want to use it. |
| Bus error -- core dumped |
| But he who kisses the joy as it flies/Lives in Eternity's sunrise. -Wm. Blake |
| But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything. -Wm. Blake |
| But you'll never become a rhinoceros...you haven't got the vocation! |
| But, Siriusly... |
| By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. |
| By omnibus I traveled to Brooklyn. |
| By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes. |
| C'est CHouette. Swiss bumper sticker |
| C'est dommage, mais c'est vrai. |
| C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas Unix. -Henry Spencer |
| CB is a great place to work. There are so many good going away parties. |
| CB is a many gendered thing. |
| California is a fine place to live if you happen to be an orange. - Fred Allen |
| Campus Crusade for Cthulhu -- It found me. |
| Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? |
| Can tomorrow be more than just the end of today? |
| Cannot fork -- try again. |
| Capitalism is indeed obsessed with money, but Marxism is obsessed with Marxism. |
| Captain Clark welcomes you aboard. |
| Caught in --More-- loop. |
| Caution -- be sure brain is engaged before putting mouth in gear. |
| Caution: Do not view laser light with remaining eye. |
| Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. |
| Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch. |
| Celibacy is not hereditary. |
| Center 1127 -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure! |
| Center meeting at 4pm in 2C-543 |
| Centran manuals are available in 2B-515. |
| Charlie don't surf. |
| Children are hereditary: if your parents didn't have any, neither will you. |
| Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. |
| Club sandwiches, not baby seals. |
| Cocaine is nature's way of saying you make too much money. |
| Cogito Ergo Spud. |
| Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. |
| Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. |
| Communication is only possible between equals. |
| Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. |
| Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness. |
| Constants aren't. Variables don't. LISP does. Functions won't. Bytes do. |
| Contains no kung fu, car chases or decapitations. |
| Continental Life. Why do you ask? |
| Convictions cause convicts -- what you believe imprisons you. |
| Core Error - Bus Dumped |
| Could not open 2147478952 framebuffers. |
| Courage is something you can never totally own or totally lose. |
| Cowards die many times before their deaths;/The valiant never taste of death but once. |
| Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!! |
| Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you are doing. |
| Creditors have much better memories than debtors. |
| Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. -Brendan Behan |
| Cthulhu Saves! ... in case He's hungry later. |
| Dames is like streetcars -- The oceans is full of 'em. -Archie Bunker |
| Dames lie about anything - just for practice. -Raymond Chandler |
| Damn it, i gotta get outta here! |
| Dangerous knowledge is a little thing. |
| Data potato, du wop du wop. |
| Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed. |
| De minimis non curat lex. |
| Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. |
| Death to all fanatics! |
| Deep down, we all need that escape velocity. -Steven Spielberg. |
| Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. |
| Department meeting in 3 minutes. |
| Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face. |
| Der Herrgott wurfelt nicht. -A. Einstein |
| Did you know ... that no-one ever reads these things? |
| Did you know that clones never use mirrors? |
| Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd ich nun nicht los. |
| Die: to stop sinning suddenly. |
| Dieux! Un monstre hideux. En hurlant. Nous poursuit. |
| Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. |
| Disco delenda est. |
| Disk crisis, please clean up! |
| Disobedience was Man's Original Virtue. -Oscar Wilde. |
| Distrust yourself, and sleep before you fight. 'Tis not too late tomorrow to be brave. - J. Armstrong. |
| Ditat Deus. |
| Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. |
| Do not clog intellect's sluices with bits of knowledge of questionable uses. |
| Do not confuse boredom with security. |
| Do not confuse effort with work. |
| Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. |
| Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light |
| Do not meddle in the affairs of troff; it is subtle and quick to anger. |
| Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards: it makes them soggy and hard to light. |
| Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards: they are subtle and quick to anger. |
| Do not meddle in the mouth. |
| Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight. |
| Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out if it alive. |
| Do not throw butts in the urinal: it makes them soggy and hard to light. |
| Do not throw butts in the urinal: they are subtle and quick to anger. |
| Do not underestimate the power of the Force. |
| Do not use the blue keys on this terminal. |
| Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. |
| Do what comes naturally now. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum. |
| Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. |
| Does George know what he's got here? -Steven Spielberg. |
| Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so? -Wm. Blake |
| Does the early bird enjoy the worm as much as the late bird enjoys the sleep? |
| Don't be overly suspicious where it's not warranted. |
| Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say. |
| Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. |
| Don't commute, communicate. |
| Don't conscience-stricken before they're hatched. |
| Don't eat yellow snow. |
| Don't feed the bats tonight. |
| Don't force it, use a bigger hammer. |
| Don't forget to run "make depend" |
| Don't get mad, make book. |
| Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while. |
| Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon. |
| Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today. |
| Don't let your thoughts get in a rut. The knife which spreads may also cut. |
| Don't lie if you don't have to. -Leo Szilard |
| Don't look back -- something may be gaining on you. -Satchel Paige. |
| Don't play games with me. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. |
| Don't put a loaded rifle on the stage unless someone intends to fire it. |
| Don't rely on your nose -- TEST ATMOSPHERE! |
| Don't speak about Time, until you have spoken to him. |
| Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective. |
| Don't try to have the last word. You might get it. |
| Don't try to out-weird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. |
| Don't type so hard. |
| Don't vote -- it only encourages them. |
| Don't worry -- dat mine, it can't hurt us -- it's one of ours. -Eccles |
| Don't worry if it doesn't work right; if everything did, you'd be out of a job. |
| Don't worry, it's not loaded. |
| Don't worry, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist |
| Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in? |
| Don't you have anything better to do with your time? |
| Down with categorical imperative! |
| Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. |
| Dreams are free, but you get soaked on the connect time. |
| Drive defensively, buy a tank. |
| Ducking for apples. Change one letter and it's the story of my life. _ Dorothy Parker |
| Dump time is unreasonable |
| During 1986, UNIX will dominate the low end. J. Scanlon |
| Dyslexics of the world, untie! |
| E Pluribus Unix. |
| E Unibus Plurum. |
| E pur si muove. |
| ERROR CREEPOUT HAS BEGUN |
| EVACUATION ROUTE ----> |
| Each man's death diminishes me for I am involved in Humanity. -John Donne |
| Easy for you to type, I have to do all the work. |
| Eat snart foobs. -Unknown Jerome |
| Economic analysts say that while the economy may be slowing, it is not fizzling out. |
| Edinburgh is the Reykjavik of the South. |
| Ego sum ens omnipotens. |
| Eileen L. Behr has translated her skill in public speaking into a successful career selling capacitors. |
| Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -Groucho Marx' last words |
| Either we are alone or we are not. Either way is mind-boggling. |
| Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally. |
| English is a stretch language; one size fits all. -W. Safire |
| Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion. |
| Espanol tiene demasiada mucha grammatica. |
| Even a cabbage may look at a king. |
| Even a hawk is an eagle among crows. |
| Even if I could be Shakespeare, I think I should still choose to be Faraday. - A. Huxley |
| Even paranoia can sometimes be taken to extremes. |
| Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. |
| Even the simplest solution is bound to have something wrong with it. |
| Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. |
| Even the thousand-zloty note can't tapdance. |
| Even these days, it's not as easy to go crazy as you think. |
| Ever see what ratfor does on a syntax error in a for loop? |
| Ever wake up feeling like a null pointer? -Allan Pratt |
| Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. |
| Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. |
| Every day, thousands of housewives pick up speed. |
| Every excess becomes a vice. |
| Every good subversive does it for fun. -Rich Rosen |
| Every law creates a whole new criminal class overnight. |
| Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own. |
| Every purchase has its price. |
| Every solution breeds new problems. |
| Every time you make something foolproof, along comes a better class of fool. |
| Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink. |
| Everything breaks down. |
| Everything east of the San Andreas Fault will eventually plunge into the ocean. |
| Everything is funny so long as it is happening to someone else. -Will Rogers |
| Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. - A. Einstein |
| Everything takes longer than you think. |
| Everything you know is wrong. |
| Everything's been said before, but nobody's listening, so keep repeating. |
| Ewige Blumenkraft. |
| Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler. |
| Excellent day to have a rotten day. |
| Excellent time to become a missing person. |
| Executive ability is in your make-up. |
| Exercise is the Yuppie version of bulemia. |
| Exhibition will continue to decline and ultimately lead to other sources of entertainment. |
| Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay. |
| Expected arrival date is presently unknown. -Dave Kristol |
| Experience varies directly with the equipment ruined. |
| Explicit liber viri elephantini. |
| External Security: |
| FORTRAN 8X combines the simplicity of PL/I and the parsimony of ADA. -S Feldman |
| Fact without theory is trivia, theory without fact is bullshit. |
| Facta, non verba -- et verbum caro factus est. |
| Facta, non verba. |
| Fairness? Decency? How can you expect fairness and decency on a planet of sleeping people? |
| Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth. |
| Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes. -Emperor Ferdinand. |
| Favor negative lobes. |
| Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. |
| Fear not, the end of the world isn't until next week. |
| Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. |
| Fiat lux. |
| Fiat voluntas tua. |
| Fill what's empty; empty what's full; scratch where it itches. -Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| Find the enemy and shoot him down; everything else is rubbish. -M. von Richthofen |
| Fine day to throw a party. Throw him as far as you can. |
| Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy. |
| First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. |
| First things first. Why not send for the Nazis right now. |
| Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressperson can. |
| Flee at once, all is discovered. |
| Flight 23 is down in the Bermuda Triangle. |
| Florida is the "flea and tick capital of America." |
| Fnord. |
| For a good time, call 8367-3100. |
| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. |
| For me, UNIX is a way of being. -Armando P. Stettner |
| For people who like that kind of book, that is the kind of book they will like. |
| Forget it, Jake...it's Chinatown. |
| Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. |
| Fortis fortuna adiuvat. - Terence |
| Fortran est; non potest legi. |
| Fortunate are they who can laugh at themselves; they will never want for amusement. |
| Fortune, good night, smile once more, turn thy wheel! - King Lear II.ii.180 |
| Fortunes ... come tumbling into some men's laps. - Francis Bacon. |
| Frankly, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. |
| Freedom is the right to be our own potty little selves. -G. K. Chesterton |
| Freedom of incrustations of grime is contiguous with rectitude. |
| Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. |
| Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. |
| From EXPLMY: Serious internal error, check the error code in the documentation of VRFYMY. |
| Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening. |
| Gaffer's tape, like The Force, has a light and a dark side and binds the universe together. |
| Gallium Arsenide is the material of the future and it always will be. |
| Generalizations are useful. The work contained in them can be reckoned as labor and therefore can create value. -G.W. Hegel |
| Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals. |
| Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. |
| Gentlemen, you can't fight here. This is the war room. |
| Get your boots on, 'cause we're gunna go in DEEP! |
| Give me a rock, paper and scissors and I will move the world. CCFestoon |
| Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your troubles. |
| Give your child mental blocks for Christmas. |
| Given enough inside information and unlimited credit, you've got to go broke. |
| Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. |
| Go out and see what the real world has to offer -Gerry Todd |
| Go suck on an infinite tube. |
| God does not play dice. |
| God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can choose our friends. |
| God is in the rock too -- in the rock! |
| God isn't dead, he just couldn't find a parking place. |
| God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. |
| God not only plays dice with the universe, He loads the dice too. |
| Gods! A hideous beast, baying is pursuing us! |
| Golden lads and girls all must,/Like chimney sweepers, come to dust. |
| Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. - Thomas Appleton. |
| Good Rule: Don't put anything in your mouth labeled "HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED" |
| Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. |
| Good day for flaming at floyd!trb. |
| Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase. |
| Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work. |
| Good day to do the unexpected: write some documentation. |
| Good day to let down old friends who need help. |
| Good day to write a purchase requisition for a 747. |
| Good fish get dull but sex is always fun. -- Mehinaku proverb |
| Good health is just the slowest, most lingering way of dying. |
| Good intentions don't mean anything unless they can deliver. |
| Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere |
| Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day. |
| Gort! Klaatu barada...uh...uh... |
| Government expands to absorb all available revenue and then some. |
| Government is just Anarchy's way of making more anarchy. |
| Graecum est; non potest legi. |
| Great shot, kid. That was one in a million. |
| Great warrior? Heh-heh-heh. Wars do not make one great. |
| Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets. |
| Growth itself becomes the only moral end. -John Dewey |
| Guns don't kill detectives -- love does. |
| Ha! You killed my husband, Sam. Be kind to me. |
| Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole history of the world would have been different. - Pascal |
| Hail to the sun god/He sure is a fun god/Ra! Ra! Ra! |
| Half Moon tonight. (At least it's better than no Moon at all.) |
| Hang by your pseudopod, write if you find a warm rich planet ripe for conquest. |
| Hang in there, hammock-nose. |
| Hangover is the wrath of the grapes. |
| Have a nice diurnal anomaly. |
| Have you done your Christmas chopping yet? -anon. White House Advisor 12/24/81 |
| Have you hugged my T-shirt today? |
| He can't think without his hat. |
| He cried at all his own weddings, and with reason. |
| He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle. |
| He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. |
| He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. |
| He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. |
| He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered. |
| He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. |
| He serves the state best who opposes it most. -Thoreau |
| He that laugheth in the face of death haveth the last laugh. |
| He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. |
| He was al coltissh, ful of ragerye,/And ful of jargon as a flekke pye. -Chaucer |
| He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes. |
| He who binds himself to a joy/Does the winged life destroy. -Wm. Blake |
| He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last. |
| He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. |
| He who has science and art has religion. -Goethe |
| He who hesitates is last. |
| He who hesitates is scrap metal. |
| He who hesitates is sometimes saved. |
| He who invents adages for others to peruse takes along rowboat when going on cruise. |
| He who keeps his nose to the grindstone, has a flat face. |
| He who laughs last is a little slow on the uptake. |
| He who laughs, lasts. |
| He who listens last is the last one listening. |
| He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. -H.S. Thompson |
| He who spends a storm beneath a tree, takes life with a grain of TNT. |
| He who trains his tongue to quote from learned sages will be known far and wide as a smartass. |
| He who wears belt and suspenders needs tighter belt. |
| Help a swallow land at Capistrano. |
| Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more. |
| Help me, i'm a prisoner in a chinese computer terminal! |
| Hey, I've got it -- let's put on a show! |
| Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password? |
| Hindsight is an exact science. |
| His heart was yours from the first moment that you met. |
| His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine. |
| History is a race between education and catastrophe. -H. G. Wells |
| Hit space to start |
| Hodie tempum scriptire in Latinum non habeo. Cras epistlum submissibo. |
| Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. |
| Home is where / is. |
| Honi soit la vache qui rit. |
| Hop before you skip. |
| Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. |
| How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the chapters involving quantum mechanics. |
| How can I take an interest in my work when I don't like it? |
| How can you work when the system's so crowded? |
| How did the Universe manage to go bang in such an unreasonable way? -PCW Davies |
| How do I love thee? Hand me my calculator... |
| How is it far, if you can think of it? |
| How long you live has nothing to do with how long you are going to be dead. |
| How sharper than a child's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent. |
| How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. |
| How the elephant got into my pyjamas I'll never know. -Marx, Animal Crackers |
| How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. |
| How you look depends on where you go. |
| Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. |
| Human kind cannot bear very much reality. -T.S. Eliot |
| Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. |
| Hypothesize and test. |
| I am Magnus. You are registered in my memory banks... |
| I am a high-pressure guy, and I didn't take this job to conduct a going-out-of-business sale. - A.A. Penzias |
| I am free of the wheel of Maya; I am dead to the dance of life. |
| I am large; I contain multitudes. |
| I am the Supreme Being. I'm not entirely dim. |
| I am the beast, I am the Word of the Aeon...I am a hell of a Holy Guru. |
| I am the wandering glitch -- catch me if you can. |
| I can call spirits from the vasty deep./Why, so can I, or so can any man. |
| I can resist everything except temptation. -Oscar Wilde. |
| I can't decide whether to throw you overboard or just change the way you look. |
| I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience. |
| I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large. |
| I dinna believe she'll hold up much longer, Captin. |
| I do not sketch or design a work, I merely begin. -Joan Miro |
| I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone |
| I don't have a moral plan... I'm a Canadian. -David Cronenberg |
| I don't like to walk, and I don't like to paddle. -James Watt |
| I don't love you any more since you ate my dog. |
| I don't mind your thinking slowly; i mind your publishing faster than you think. -W. Pauli |
| I give presents to the mother, but I think of the daughter. |
| I hate programs that chdir on you - Boyd Roberts |
| I have 36 rolls of 5247 for our use in the laser fridge... |
| I have NEVER written a program in C! Narain Gehani |
| I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats; I tell them the truth and they never believe me. -Cavour |
| I have everything we will need. |
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my educations. |
| I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it. -Cage |
| I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion. |
| I haven't lost my mind. I've got it backed up on tape somewhere. |
| I hope that there are sour apples in every bushel. |
| I kissed my first cigarette on the herpolhode lying in the invariable plane. |
| I kissed my first cigarette on the stage unless someone intends to fire it. |
| I kissed my first lady and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since. -Arturo Toscanini |
| I know nothing. -Ken Thompson |
| I know the difference between real-real and drug-real. |
| I like user-hostile ignorance-based amateur systems. |
| I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours. |
| I love Pascal ... I'm also into leather. |
| I love the smell of napalm in the morning. |
| I love you. |
| I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts. |
| I never dringk ... wine. -Bela Lugosi |
| I never refuse. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. -Disraeli |
| I knew it was coming and I still felt as if I'd swallowed a snowcone whole. |
| I regard an original error as better than a borrowed truth. -Merton. |
| I regard an original error as better than no Moon at all. |
| I see no login here! |
| I see only darkness in the crystal ball |
| I sense something -- a presence I haven't felt since.... |
| I taught him everything he knows. Now he knows more. -Randal L. Schwartz |
| I thank you from the heart of my bottom. |
| I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the driving right now. |
| I think my spaceship knows which way to go. |
| I think that I shall never see a billboard as lovely as a tree. -Ogden Nash |
| I think; therefore I am confused. |
| I was just going to call you. |
| I will not suffer fools gladly, but I will gladly make fools suffer. -Bimmler |
| I wish I had time to explain dimensional transcendentalism -Dr. Who |
| I wish you humans would leave me alone. |
| I wonder what will happen if I touch these two wires together. |
| I would be perfectly happy being Kepler, [but] I have been Kepler many times over.-B. Mandelbrot |
| I wouldn't let a knight out on a dog like this! |
| I wouldn't marry her to a ten foot Pole. |
| I wouldn't marry him with a ten foot pole. |
| I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. |
| I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy. -Martin Mull |
| I'd rather have my mail delivered by Lockheed than ride in a plane built by the Post Office. |
| I'll eat it if I'm wrong. I mean a potato. - Danny Sleator |
| I'll produce anything that gets high ratings. -Anonymous NBC official |
| I'll smoke when the pope's wife takes the pill. |
| I'm a Hollywood writer; so I put on a sports jacket and take off my brain. |
| I'm free -- and freedom tastes of reality. |
| I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. |
| I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life. |
| I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. |
| I'm sorry, but I've made other plans. |
| I've done this before and never had any trouble. |
| I've got a ferret sticking up my nose. |
| ICIKL: DO I = 1 /* BY +1 FELTETELEZESEVEL */ TO 2*N; |
| IOT trap -- core dumped |
| IOT trap -- core melted |
| If A=B and B=C, then A=C, except where void or prohibited by law. -Roy Santoro |
| If Congress must do a painful thing, it must be done in an odd-numbered year. |
| If God could perform the tricks we do, He'd be a happy man. |
| If God had meant Texans to ski, he would have made bullshit white. |
| If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands. |
| If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions? |
| If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows. |
| If God meant for Texans to ski, He would have made them a mountain. |
| If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a candidate. |
| If I could remember the names of all these particles I would have been a botanist. -- Enrico Fermi |
| If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -Albert Einstein |
| If I had to choose between System V and 4.2, I'd resign. - Peter Honeyman |
| If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. |
| If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, it's safe to surf this beach. |
| If I should return in my absence, kindly detain me until I get back. |
| If I wanted your opinion, I'd tell it to you. -Samuel Goldwyn |
| If Lincoln were alive today he would be spinning in his grave. -G. Ford |
| If MS/DOS is the only operating system you're ever going to use, then the procedure is simple |
| If a thousand people say a foolish thing, it remains a foolish thing. |
| If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. |
| If anything can go wrong, it will. |
| If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success. |
| If at first you succeed, try to hide your astonishment. |
| If bankers can count, why do they have eight windows and only four tellers? |
| If butterflies had teeth like tigers they would never make it out of the hangar. |
| If double-bubble inflation did occur, then the shadow world is exponentially uninteresting. |
| If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation. |
| If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. |
| If ignorance were cornflakes, you'd be General Mills. |
| If it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
| If it doesn't matter, it does not matter. |
| If it happens, it must be possible. |
| If it isn't like TECO, it's not worth using. -Rae McLellan |
| If it pours before seven, it has rained by eleven. |
| If it were dangerous they would post a sign... |
| If it's boring, turn it off. |
| If it's gratitude you want, get a dog. -P. T. Barnum |
| If it's not broken, don't fix it. |
| If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well. |
| If it's worth doing well, it's worth doing. |
| If more is better then too much is just enough. |
| If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time. |
| If some day it should happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list, I've got a little list. |
| If the "medium is the message" then the message of low-bandwidth timesharing is "blah". -- Alan Kay |
| If the check is truly in the mail, it is surely made out to someone else. |
| If the coin is heads up don't pick it up. |
| If the experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. |
| If the facts do not support the theory, they must be disposed of. |
| If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it elect a new people? |
| If the shoe fits, buy the other one, too. |
| If there are any resources you need to get this job done, just let us know. |
| If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -Art Hoppe |
| If they gave me a goldfish, I would cook it. -Feng Jicai |
| If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same? |
| If voting could change the system, it would be against the law. |
| If we turn on the lights fast enough, we'll see what the dark looks like. |
| If we'd all been living in California, we wouldn't have worked at ALL. |
| If you ask how much it is, you can't afford it. |
| If you can't find enough radiation at Ralph's, you can probably do without it. |
| If you can't stand the heat, remove your clothing! |
| If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -Harry S. Truman |
| If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. |
| If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost. |
| If you don't insist on correct answers, I can make it run as fast as you want. |
| If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter how you get there. |
| If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. |
| If you don't pay attention to every little detail, you miss most of the jokes. |
| If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. |
| If you grab the bull by the horns, feathers will fly. |
| If you have to lie to someone, it's their fault. |
| If you have to think twice about it, you're wrong. |
| If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class? |
| If you know high class quality merchandise, you know this is CHEAP! |
| If you start now you might finish on time. |
| If you suspect a man, don't employ him. |
| If you take the last cup, make a new pot. |
| If you take the last pot, make a new cup. |
| If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first. |
| If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it. |
| If you think it's hard going to the moon, you should try staying home. |
| If you think last Tuesday was a drag, wait till you see what happens tomorrow! |
| If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. K Thompson |
| If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts. |
| If you were able to count up to infinity I'll bet you would never get over it. |
| If you're asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants. |
| If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. |
| If you're not apprehensive then you don't understand the situation. |
| If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |
| If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. - E. Rutherford |
| Ignore alien orders. |
| Ignore previous fortune. |
| Ignore the fatal errors. It's O.K. |
| Il faut cultiver son jardins. -Voltaire |
| Illegal Arbitrator - Line 23 |
| Illegitimi non carborundum. |
| Immanuel Kant but Kubla Khan. |
| In Africa the tusks are too firmly rooted, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. |
| In addition to a yes and a no, the universe contains a maybe. -D. Finkelstein |
| In an evolving universe, who stands still moves backwards. |
| In any society, the correct pronunciation is the dialect that has an army. |
| In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!". |
| In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. |
| In communism Man exploits Man. In capitalism it's the other way around. |
| In comparison with the ancients, we stand like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants. -Bernard of Chartres |
| In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. |
| In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. |
| In nature there is immediate adjustment but no compulsion. -Chuang Chou |
| In order to make an omelette, you have to break a few cooks. |
| In rebus mathematicis errores quam minimi non sunt contemnendi. |
| In the Unix tradition, vi is intended to be a small tool that does one thing well. |
| In the future, all programmers will be able to use malloc. |
| In the land of the blind the one-eyed man can see across the road and prove it. |
| In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. |
| In the land of the one-eyed men, the blind have to wear glasses. |
| In this world, truth can wait; she's used to it. |
| Incest, like charity, begins at home. |
| Insanity is always the best defense against boredom. |
| Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. -N. Wirth |
| Intermittent resolutions lack potency. -Robert Silverberg |
| Into each life a little fallout must rain. -Baba Rebop |
| It got to a point where I had to get a haircut or a violin. -F.D.Roosevelt |
| It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize. |
| It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. |
| It is a very sad thing nowadays that there is so little useless information. |
| It is absurd to deny the role of fantasy in even the strictest science. -Lenin |
| It is bad luck to be superstitious. -Andrew W. Mathis |
| It is better to have loved and lost -- much better. |
| It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost. |
| It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark. |
| It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness, except at the Browns Ferry reactor. |
| It is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven. -Milton |
| It is better to wear out than to rust out. |
| It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. |
| It is far better to vote for a loser than to elect one. |
| It is far better to vote for a loser than to elect? |
| It is fruitless to become lachrymal over precipitately departed lacteal fluid. |
| It is hard to sit with the turkeys when you soar with the eagles. |
| It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem. |
| It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -Hawkwind |
| It is the wise bird who builds her nest in a tree. |
| It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. -Paul Newman |
| It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. |
| It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you. |
| It steam-engines when it becomes steam-engine time. -Charles Fort |
| It takes approximately two minutes to reposition the continents from one geological era to another. |
| It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. |
| It works better if you plug it in. |
| It would appear that even BTL employees put their pants on one leg at a time. |
| It would be wise to cut expectations in half. |
| It's 5 o'clock. Do you know where your files are? |
| It's Your Environment -- Use It Up! |
| It's a hardware problem. |
| It's a sad woman who buys her own perfume. |
| It's a small world, but I'd hate to have to paint it. |
| It's a software problem. |
| It's a useless but absolutely vital precaution. |
| It's an empty head that wears a hairpiece. - Pauline Kael |
| It's business doing pleasure with you. |
| It's clever, but is it art? |
| It's deja vu all over again. |
| It's difficult to explain Kleenex to an aborigine. |
| It's earlier than you think. |
| It's funny how they work so well, even when they're not appropriate. |
| It's hard to be humble when you're perfect. |
| It's hard to be mellow when you bite your nails. |
| It's hard to be mellow when you can't stand up. |
| It's hard to love someone who looks down on you because your hands get bloody protecting him. |
| It's just a silly native superstition. |
| It's later than you think. |
| It's lonely at the top, but it's lonelier at the bottom. |
| It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. |
| It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either. -Boston Mayor Kevin White |
| It's not a car, it's a Volkswagen. |
| It's not cool enough for the eighties. |
| It's not easy to play the clown when you've got to run the whole circus. |
| It's not my fault -- it's a mechanical problem! |
| It's not my fault! |
| It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things. |
| It's not reality that's important, it's how you perceive things. |
| It's not the time between the takes that takes the time - it's changing your mind between the takes that takes the time. -Stage Dept. |
| It's not the time it takes to take the takes that takes the time, it's the time it takes between the takes that takes the time. -S. Spielberg |
| It's not the years, it's the mileage. |
| It's only a game! |
| It's simple, clean, it works, and you can get it right now. -Mike O'Dell |
| It's some kind of instinct...This was an important place in their lives. |
| It's the law: Use a pun, go to prism (for minor refractions of the law only!) |
| It's the thought, if any, that counts! -Dick Grantges |
| It's time to gearshift up from the crawl we've been in to a full trot. - Jack Scanlon |
| It's worse than being at the theatre. |
| Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today. |
| Jesus Rodrigues has a 9-inch duck. |
| Jesus saves, Moses invests, the Mongol Hoards, but only Buddha pays dividends. |
| Join me and I will complete your training. |
| Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. |
| Just be glad you don't get all the government you pay for. -Will Rogers |
| Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. |
| Justice for the poor is much less popular than revenge on the rich. |
| Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. |
| Ken Thompson can't beat Belle. So what? How fast can Seymour Cray add? |
| Kids are always the only future the human race has. -William Saroyan |
| Kill ugly radio! |
| Klaatu barada nikto. |
| Kleeneliness is next to Goedeliness. |
| Label on a bottle of pills: "Do not take these pills if this label is missing" |
| Lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction. |
| Lando's not a system, he's a man. He's a gambler, scoundrel. You'd like him. |
| Language is a virus from outer space. -William Burroughs. |
| Language is all that separates us from the lower animals and the bureaucrats. |
| Last login: Sat Aug 10 09:22:14 on ttym0 |
| Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. |
| Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either. |
| Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, `Hold, enough!' |
| Leadership means taxes. |
| Lest men suspect your tale untrue,/Keep probability in view. -John Gay (1727) |
| Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. |
| Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday. |
| Let no one unskilled in geometry enter here. -Plato |
| Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. |
| Let sleeping wraiths lie. |
| Let's just take this shortcut across this field. That bull doesn't see us. |
| Let's look at the record. -Al Smith |
| Li'l dollink, always fetful. |
| Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. |
| Life is a game: whoever dies with the most toys wins. |
| Life is a giant shell and we're just processes. |
| Life is a mystery -- love is a dancer. |
| Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string. |
| Life is hard but unjust. |
| Life is just a bowl. |
| Life is not for everyone. -M. O'Donoghue |
| Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. |
| Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. |
| Little girls have pretty curls, but I like Oreos. |
| Little things come in small packages. |
| Live forever, or die trying. |
| Live long and perspire. |
| Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper. |
| Load average too high now (11.358253), please try later |
| Local disks are our FORTRAN. -Warren Teitelman |
| Long computations which yield 0 (zero) are probably all for naught. |
| Longevity is an optimist's heaven and a pessimist's hell. |
| Look after the molehills and the mountains will look after themselves. |
| Look on my works, oh ye mighty, and giggle. |
| Lord? We don't have no lord. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. |
| Lose a few, lose a few. |
| Losing your servo track is just God's way of saying `BOOGA, BOOGA!' |
| Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. |
| Love is a many gendered thing. |
| Love is in the offing, said the homicidal maniac. |
| Love is only love, but money is forever. |
| Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. |
| Love, and do what thou wilt. |
| Luchamos contra el Wombat, otra enemigo de la humanidad. -Frente Wombato de Liberacion Nacional |
| Luke, don't give in to hate. That leads to the dark side. |
| MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING |
| Machne oprating at olny tn prcnt eficiency. |
| Macro context switch under way, please do not log out! |
| Make War, not Love: killing is fun too. -Nicholas von Hoffman |
| Make a list of all the facts you know about the universe. |
| Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it. -DM Ritchie |
| Make use of whatever advanced technology is available |
| Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. |
| Making outside money using our computers has resulted in suspension. |
| Making sense makes more sense than not making sense. -T. Duff |
| Male tyrannosaurs may have used their diminutive front legs to titillate female partners, but this will not explain why they got so small. - Gould and Lewontin |
| Man cannot live by bread alone: frequently, there must be beverage, too. |
| Man cannot live by bread alone; he needs a little peanut butter on it. |
| Man has created death. -William Butler Yeats |
| Man is in doubt to deem himself a god or beast. -Alexander Pope |
| Man is in session. |
| Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self. |
| Man's horizons are bounded by his vision. |
| Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing. |
| Many are called, few volunteer. |
| Many are cold, but few are frozen. |
| Many pages make a thick book. |
| Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. |
| Marriage is an attempt to change a night owl into a homing pigeon. |
| Masterpieces make their own rules. |
| May I have a large container of coffee? |
| May the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits. |
| May you live all the days of your life. |
| May your rolling stone always grow grass that is greener underneath. |
| Maybe I should have screwed up. - Ken Thompson |
| Mcc may be slow and generate bad code, but it took a long time to develop. |
| Medeis ageometretos eisito mou ten stegen. -Plato |
| Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate. |
| Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. -Dorothy Parker. |
| Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples. |
| Message will arrive in the mail. Destroy, before the FBI sees it. |
| Micronics makes it simple. |
| Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca. |
| Military justice is to justice as military music is to music. -Clemenceau |
| Military music is to music as military intelligence is to intelligence |
| Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed interference. |
| Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. |
| Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. |
| Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure. |
| Money cannot buy happiness, but happiness will not buy groceries. |
| Money is a terrible thing to follow but a charming thing to meet. |
| Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots. |
| Money may buy friendship but money can not buy love. |
| Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. |
| Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/The Lord's anointed temple. -MacBeth |
| Most users are within a 10 mile radius. |
| Mr. President! We cannot allow ... a MINE-SHAFT GAP! |
| Multi sunt vocati, pauci vero electi. |
| Multilevel standards are like onions. They're smelly and make you cry a lot. -Ron Natalie |
| My broker is E. F. Hutton, and E. F. Hutton says... |
| My karma just ran over your dogma. |
| My program is so jammed with clever tricks - GJ Holzmann |
| My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world. |
| NOT NOT NOT ALLOWED |
| Naked is the best disguise. |
| National security is the chief cause of national insecurity. |
| Need a personal problem? Get a personal computer. - C. P. Killian |
| Neither a borrower nor a lender be/For loan oft loses both itself and friend. |
| Nembutal numbs it all, but I prefer alcohol. -Strummer/Jones |
| Netnews is someone yelling "Anybody wanna buy a used car?" in a crowded theater. |
| Never argue with a fool -- people might not know the difference. |
| Never attribute to malice what can be found in scientific american, under computer recreations. |
| Never buy a case of wine with eleven bottles. |
| Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. |
| Never eat anything bigger than your head. |
| Never eat in a restaurant that rotates or is above the 10th floor. |
| Never eat rutabaga on any day of the week that has a "y" in it. |
| Never give a inch! |
| Never hatchet your Counts before they chicken. |
| Never lick a gift horse in the mouth. |
| Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. |
| Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. |
| Never stow away on a kamikaze plane. |
| Never worry the boss unnecessarily. Don't tell him. |
| New career ideas are worth pursuing. |
| New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt. |
| Niagara Falls is the second-biggest disappointment in a bride's life. -O. Wilde |
| Niagara Falls is the wise bird who builds her nest in a chinese computer terminal! |
| Niagara Falls would be much more impressive if it flowed the other way. - Oscar Wilde |
| Nihilism means nothing to the dancing peasants. |
| Nihilism should commence with oneself. |
| No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail. |
| No branch is better than its trunk. |
| No directory |
| No directory! Logging in with home=/ |
| No good deed goes unpunished. -Clare Booth Luce. |
| No jaggies! |
| No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. |
| No mistake is too small to be fixed, but first make sure it's a mistake. |
| No news is good news. |
| No note is too high to be taken down an octave. |
| No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. |
| No two ways about it, there are two sides to every story. |
| No user jobs will be lost because of the crash. |
| Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. |
| Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! |
| Nobody goes to the theatre unless suffering from acute bronchitis. |
| Nobody is truly sane until he feels gratitude to the whole universe. |
| Nobody knows anything, or if they do, they are careful to hide the fact. |
| Nobody takes computer graphics seriously, even the guys that do it. -T. Duff |
| Non serviam. |
| Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. |
| Not all the water in a rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king. |
| Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on Sundays. |
| Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. |
| Nothing difficult is ever easy. -Steve Falco |
| Nothing is as easy as it looks. |
| Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison. |
| Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. |
| Nothing is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason. |
| Nothing is true. Everything is permissible. -Hassan i Sabbah |
| Nothing matters indeed, it's all in your mind... |
| Nothing more certain than incertainties; Fortune is full of fresh variety: Constant in nothing but inconstancy. - Richard Barnfield. |
| Nothing of interest ever happened on this day. |
| Nothing works. No one knows why. And some jerk is talking French. -Bob Lied |
| Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. |
| Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer in Northern California. |
| Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York. |
| O brave new world,/That has such people in't! |
| O dear Ophelia! I am ill at these numbers: I have not art to reckon my groans. |
| O.T.O. wants you. |
| OK, I think I understand. |
| OS 360 -- Not uranium. |
| Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. |
| Of all things man is the measure. -Protagoras |
| Oh, don't the days seem lank and long, when all goes right and nothing goes wrong. |
| Oh, so there you are! |
| Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement. |
| Old age -- it's the only disease that you don't look forward to being cured of. |
| Omnibus ex nihil ducendis sufficit unum. -Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz |
| On a clear disk you can seek forever. |
| Once TOAD is operational, how frequently would you expect to access TOAD? |
| One Bell System -- it sometimes works. |
| One Bell System -- it works. |
| One bad apple can ruin a snake. |
| One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. -H. L. Mencken |
| One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. |
| One man's Mede is another man's Persian. |
| One picture is worth 128k words. |
| One scythe fits all. |
| One starts life with a swelled head and ends with swelled feet. -Ezra Pound |
| Only %d shopping days until Christmas. |
| Only God can make a random selection. |
| Only someone with nothing to be sorry for smiles back at the rear of an elephant. |
| Only two things are infinite: the universe and human ignorance. -A. Einstein |
| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, or is that ontology recapitulates philology? |
| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. -Haeckel |
| Ontogeny rehashes phylogeny. |
| Ooh, Andy Tannenbaum? His netnews is SO derivative. |
| Options can cause undesirable operations, so it is important to ensure they are set up properly. |
| Order ignorant aliens. |
| Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails. |
| Otto's too so-so to toss soot, too sot to toot SOSs. So? |
| Our ancestors may have been ignorant, but they were not stupid. |
| Our sponsor thought it was for ADA. In fact it was for C. |
| Our vision will speed up time, eventually deleting it. -Alexander Schure |
| Out of memory saving lines for undo - try using ed. |
| Out of the mouths of babes comes semi-digested Pablum. |
| Overall there is a smell of fried onions. (fnord) |
| Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. |
| Panem et circenses, that's what the public wants. |
| Paranoia doesn't mean the whole world really isn't out to get you. |
| Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway oh, God, I'm so depressed... |
| Passing over a black hole temporarily disables ship. |
| Password: |
| People get it into their heads that this is a democracy. Well it isn't. -gwl |
| People never go there anymore; it's too crowded. -Yogi Berra |
| People really shouldn't spread gossip, but what else is it good for? |
| People tend to congregate in the back of the church and the front of the bus. |
| People usually do what other people have done before them. |
| People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten. -Jon Bentley |
| People who take cat naps don't usually sleep in a cat's cradle. |
| People who think they know everything greatly annoy us who do. |
| People will buy anything that's one to a customer. |
| Per omnia saecula vombatidae. |
| Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things. |
| Perfect love casteth out fear. |
| Person who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought. |
| Personality is a flimsy thing on which to build an art. -John Cage |
| Philosophy is the Rule of Life. |
| Philosopy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. |
| Physician, bill thyself. |
| Planning dooms most projects. |
| Please log off, the computer is out to get in your room and drink? |
| Please log off, the computer is out to lunch. |
| Please take note: |
| Please to remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot. |
| Plunk your magic twanger, froggy. |
| Pluralites non est punenda sine necessitate. -Wm. of Occam |
| Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. |
| Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. |
| Populus vult decipi. |
| Pornography is in the groin of the beholder. -William F. Buckley |
| Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. |
| Post proelium, praemium. |
| Pregnant ropuli. |
| Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -D. E. Knuth |
| Preserve wildlife -- pickle a squirrel today! |
| Prevention makes the heart grow fonder. |
| Primate behaviour only changes under the impact of new technology. |
| Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. |
| Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -Don Marquis |
| Programming and puddings demand consistency. |
| Progress is made on alternate Fridays. |
| Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword. |
| Proofreading is more effective after publication. |
| Proper planning includes admitting that your plan may not work. |
| Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity. |
| Put not your trust in money, but your money in trust. |
| Put your mouth where your mouth is. |
| Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. |
| Quantum mechanics do it with uncertainty. |
| Questions are a burden for others; answers are a prison for oneself. |
| Rain before sunset, dark by midnight. |
| Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. |
| Reach out and grep someone. |
| Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. |
| Real programmers can't say `lint' without adding `hbaxcu' -Wm Leler |
| Real programs don't eat cache. |
| Reality is for those who can't handle drugs. |
| Reality is good for you...in small doses. |
| Reality is silly-putty. -Paul Krassner |
| Reality seems harsher in the early morning. |
| Reason establishes the foundation of faith. Faith compensates the error of reason. |
| Reason is a universal instrument which can serve on any kind of occasion. -Descartes |
| Reform always comes from below. No man with four aces asks for a new deal. |
| Regnant populi. |
| Rei panta. |
| Religions revolve madly around sexual questions. |
| Remember that "almost" means "not". |
| Remember the Unknown Buffalo. |
| Remember when you asked me to tell you when you were being inconsiderate? |
| Remember why the good Lord made your eyes -- Pla-gi-a-rize! -Tom Lehrer |
| Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. |
| Remember, even if you win the rat race -- you're still a rat. |
| Render unto Caesar if line 54 is larger than line 62. |
| Repetition is a form of change. -B. Eno |
| Research is a great career: you get paid for looking, regardless of results. |
| Respect you in the morning?! Hell, I don't even respect you now. |
| Restrain your octopus! The canoes are going fishing tomorrow. |
| Ring around the collar. |
| Ring the bell; close the book; quench the candle. |
| Ritual is to the inner sciences what experiment is to the outer sciences. -Leary |
| Rog-O-Matic callidus est. |
| Rog-O-Matic perditus est. |
| Rog-O-Matic's not expert enough. It could handle rogue, but it couldn't handle More. |
| Rotten wood can not be carved -Confucius (Analects, Book 5, Ch. 9) |
| Round numbers are always false. -Samuel Johnson (c. 1750) |
| Rule 5 Violation |
| SCCS: the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out. Ken Thompson |
| SYS ERROR 0 - no error detected |
| Sailors in ships, sail on! Even while we died, others rode out the storm. |
| Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone. |
| Save a forest -- eat a beaver! |
| Save the dot files! |
| Save yourself! Reboot in 5 seconds! |
| Say "no" to long-sleeved shirts!! Support your right to bare arms! |
| Say your prayers, you're going to Zen heaven. |
| Schroedinger might have been here. |
| Schroedinger's cat is sitting on Heisenberg's shoulder and they are both laughing at you. |
| Scintillate, scintillate, aster minific. |
| Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else. |
| Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. |
| Secret mail has arrived. |
| See that ocean -- that used to be some ocean. -Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City |
| Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. |
| Self denial is better than self degradation. |
| Sell everything. Market top has been reached. -Joseph Granville |
| Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. |
| Señor, if you hurry from here, you will wait longer there. -Mexico taxi driver |
| Sex with someone you don't love is just gymnastics--and I hate exercise. -John Derek |
| Shadows slick as eels slither through. |
| Share your happiness with others today. |
| She canna take much more o' this, Mr. Spock. |
| Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up! Push Down! Byte, byte, byte! |
| Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change. |
| Si nummi immunis. |
| Silver is pure. It's been a symbol of justice and purity since the year of the sun. |
| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
| Sink or Swim with Teddy! |
| Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. |
| Smile ... tomorrow will be worse. |
| Smoked carp is terrible unless you're out of smoked salmon. |
| Smooth rotation butters no parsnips. -J. W. Tukey |
| Snatch the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper. |
| Snob intellectual bachelors can't have fun in San Antonio. -Ted Nelson |
| Snoopy has fleas. |
| Snow Day -- stay home. |
| So long as radicals honor theory over facts, they will continue to dismantle their successes. |
| So narrow minded is the boss that he has to stack his ideas vertically. |
| Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. |
| Soft soap often has a high percentage of lye in it. -- Salada Tea |
| Solve et coagule. |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed. -- Francis Bacon |
| Some day this war's gonna end. |
| Some men are discovered; others are found out. |
| Some of us feel that there is a loss of scholarship here, and we're not too happy about it. -Irvin Lustig |
| Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books. |
| Some things are better left unsaid. |
| Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -Sigmund Freud |
| Sometimes it seems to me that men are children grown incompetent. -Carl Whitaker |
| Sometimes you've gotta give it all you've got, because it just isn't enough. |
| Soon you will be sitting on top of the world. |
| Sooner or later everybody's gotta pay their tab. |
| Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted. |
| Space travel is utter bilge. -Sir Richard Van Der Riet Wolley |
| Spare no expense to save money on this one. -Samuel Goldwyn |
| Speaking of poison, I'll see that you get some fresh breakfast immediately. |
| Specialization is for insects. -Robt. A. Heinlein |
| Spend extra time on hobby. Get plenty of rolling papers. |
| Split a stick of wood, and the Christ is there, too. |
| Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. |
| Stack overflow in crawlout. User environment re-initialized. (FATAL$) |
| Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down. |
| Status: R |
| Stay away from flying saucers today. |
| Stay away from hurricanes for a while. |
| Stereotypes are one of the worst things in the world. -miteddie!nessus |
| Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a laser beam is another matter. |
| Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you. |
| Stop searching forever. Happiness is unattainable. |
| Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you. |
| Stop worrying, you'll never get out of this world alive. |
| Subject: Re: Re: Clar ... HUMBUG! - Wrongthink st - (nf) |
| Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring. |
| Sum quod eris. |
| Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 1.1 (IAS) #1: Tue Jan 29 01:25:15 PST 1985 |
| Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. - Joseph Addison. |
| Sure [Somoza]'s a son-of-a-bitch, but he's OUR son-of-a-bitch. -F.D. Roosevelt |
| Surprise due today. Also the rent. |
| Surprise your boss. Get to work on time. |
| Surveillance should precede salientation. |
| System down Tues. am for COBOL compiler installation. |
| System going down at 1:45 this afternoon for disk crash. |
| System going down for 5 minutes -- back up in barrels. |
| System going down for 5 minutes -- back up in half an hour. |
| System going down in 5 minutes. |
| System might crash at any moment. |
| System went down at Fri Dec 13 21:54:56 1901 |
| TERROR IN THE OUTPUT FILE A A |
| TNT allows students the freedom to make mistakes. |
| TSO -- it may be slow, but it's hard to use. |
| Tai Chi is self-defense for people on Quaaludes. |
| Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. |
| Take care of your peonies and the dahlias will take care of themselves. |
| Te ayudare a recorder la cantidad a indoctos si releesme bien. |
| Teach it ... phenomenology. |
| Technological unemployment is total today -- 300 years ago we were all farmers. |
| Tell the girls to slice the ham thin. |
| Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing. |
| Terminals at home are always in the bedroom. |
| Thank God I'm an atheist. -Aleister Crowley |
| Thank you for choosing UNIX -- batteries not included, some assembly required. |
| That goes against the laws of Physics. |
| That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. |
| That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself. |
| That which does not kill me makes me stronger. |
| That which does not kill me missed. |
| That which is above is in that which is below. |
| That's as American as pie charts. |
| That's the nice thing about standards -- there's so many to choose from. -trb |
| The $SIGNON command is a risky practice. |
| The 3B2 Model 100 - the first machine with cat -v in ROM! |
| The Angels want to wear my red shoes. |
| The Beatles? Isn't that Paul McCartney's old band? |
| The Blit is a nice terminal, but it runs emacs. |
| The Constitution gives us freedom of religion, not freedom from religion -R Reagan |
| The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am. |
| The Force is strong with this one. |
| The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet. |
| The Government urges you to remain calm. |
| The Inuit have dozens of words for snow, so why do the Dutch only have one word for rain? |
| The Italians make money out of funding their own deficit. |
| The Luddites always lose. Always. |
| The Moral Majority are the people our ancestors came from Europe to escape. |
| The PIXAR -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure. |
| The SUN really is a hunk of junk. - Tom Duff |
| The Tao which can be talked about is not the Tao. -Lao Tzu |
| The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad. |
| The UFO and the BVM seem to be the same phenomenon. -Jacques Vallee |
| The UNIX system is harder to use than a toaster. -Kaare Christian |
| The United States Army: 194 years of proud service, unhampered by progress. |
| The aim of existence is to have clean ideas, change them like shirts. |
| The aim of existence is to offer resistance to the flow of time. |
| The answer you seek is in an envelope. |
| The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive. |
| The average legislator is somewhere nearly all the time. -Herb Nore |
| The barge was in my blind spot. - Peter Hobson, Cambridge cox |
| The best prophet of the future is the past. |
| The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life. |
| The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. - S. Hawking |
| The check is in the mail. |
| The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. |
| The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. |
| The connotation depends on the beacon. - Mark V. Shaney |
| The contrary of a compound is the aggregate of the contraries of the components. - De Morgan |
| The contrary of an aggregate is the compound of the contraries of the aggregates. - De Morgan |
| The coroner gave you a clean bill of health. |
| The darkest hour is just before the storm. |
| The dawning of the Information Age is bringing about dramatic changes in the fundamental fabric of our civilization. - AA Penzias |
| The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous. |
| The difference between a thief and the IRS is that the thief doesn't audit you afterwards. |
| The difficult we gave up on yesterday, the impossible we are giving up on now. |
| The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night before. |
| The early worm gets the bird. |
| The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier. |
| The empty fist always makes the deepest wound. |
| The end is closer than you think. |
| The end justifies the meanness. |
| The enemy is ignorance [our own]. -Ezra Pound |
| The eyes believe themselves, the ears believe other people. |
| The fear of the lord was discovered before vitamins. |
| The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever. |
| The first step in fixing something is getting it to break. |
| The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Henry VI, part II. |
| The fit between the world and the human symbols describing it is never perfect. |
| The following file systems are due for backup at this time: |
| The fruits of impatience are bitter. |
| The function of the sun is not to help the cabbages along. - Flaubert |
| The further you get, the better it looks. |
| The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.) |
| The future isn't what it used to be. -Arthur C. Clarke |
| The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. |
| The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. |
| The hardest part of raising children is teaching them to ride bicycles. |
| The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon by the bee. |
| The human brain is not a pretty sight. |
| The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein - it rejects it. -Peter Medawar |
| The invention of the multiple-choice exam was the death blow to competent writing. |
| The judge's jokes are always funny. |
| The ketchup of sorrow is better than the mustard of happiness. |
| The last twenty-nine days of the month are the worst. -Nicola Tesla |
| The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep. |
| The love of money is the mucilage of many a tragic friendship -Stuart McMillan |
| The man of knowledge can see several things at once. |
| The map is not the territory. -A. E. Van Vogt, in World of Null-A |
| The measure of the rigor of a science is the index of its ability to predict. |
| The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are careful to hide the fact. |
| The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are pronounced "o". |
| The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse. |
| The more complicated the mind, the more simple the play. |
| The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again. |
| The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. |
| The move of bambam functionality to the new AP bugs is re-scheduled to Friday night |
| The nervous system sees no color, feels no pain. -T. Leary |
| The null string has always been a locksmith. -Albert Einstein |
| The null string has always been a productive source of off-by-0 errors. |
| The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. - 2nd Edition UNIX manual |
| The number of approved [COBOL] subsets has been reduced from 104,976 to 54. - JM Triance |
| The official state animal of New York is the cabbie. |
| The official state tree of North Dakota is the telephone pole? |
| The one interesting fact about the Diplodocus is that the accent is on the second syllable. |
| The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race. |
| The only one who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. |
| The only people who listen to both sides of an argument are the neighbors. |
| The only sure things in life are net.suicide and net.taxes. |
| The only thing cheaper than hardware is talk. |
| The only way out of a circle is through the center. |
| The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings. |
| The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. |
| The pale companion is not for our pomp. |
| The pearl the squirrel the girl hit bit split. |
| The planes in Spain fall mainly in the rain. |
| The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. |
| The plural of spouse is spice. |
| The polhode rolls without slipping on the herpolhode lying in the invariable plane. |
| The problem with a just economy is, who runs the Bureau of Economic Justice? |
| The prudent man does not hold his breath. |
| The reason Swedes put little o's over some A's is that ontology recapitulates philology. |
| The reason Swedes put little o's over some A's is that they are pronounced "o". |
| The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. |
| The rich man has his motor car, His country and his town estate. He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. - F. P. Adams |
| The screen rectangle must be charged with emotion. Hitchcock |
| The sheep - symbolic creature of docility, sacrifice and stupidity. |
| The shorter the line, the slower it moves. |
| The shortest distance between two points is off the wall. |
| The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -Noelie Altito |
| The skeletons in the cupboard will all come out in the wash. |
| The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. |
| The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. |
| The stapler runs out of staples only while you are trying to staple something. |
| The sterile pleasure of being right tends to get stale in the course of a lifetime. EW Dijkstra |
| The strength of a nation lies in the integrity of its homes. -Confucius |
| The stylus is more potent than the claymore. |
| The sword he sang a song of death/But could not make the sickle yield. -Blake |
| The thing about Chinatown is, you can never be sure of anything down there. |
| The three laws of physics: f=ma; things fall down; you can't push a rope. |
| The tide of change approaches. |
| The time is right to make new friends. |
| The unexamined life is not worth examining. |
| The universe is laughing behind your back. |
| The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget that he is a blockhead. |
| The voice of the people is odd,/It is, and it is not, the voice of God. -Pope |
| The wheels of justice grind slow but fine. |
| The whole UNIX operating system was ripped off electronically. |
| The whole UNIX operating system whose documentation fits in a chinese computer terminal! |
| The wise shepherdess never trusts her flock to a smiling wolf. |
| The world cannot be understood from a single point of view. -Eleanor Roosevelt |
| The world ended yesterday-this is only a dream! |
| The world ended yesterday-why are you still here? |
| The world is a conspiracy of the unthinking against the unwitting. |
| The world is all that is the case. -Wittgenstein |
| The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books! |
| Them that dishes it out need not fall over every time someone blows hard. |
| There are more old drunkards than old doctors. |
| There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. |
| There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. |
| There are no color bars in Cuba. |
| There are only three kinds of proof: induction, exhaustion, and intimidation. |
| There are two kinds of people in the world -- those who are, and those who aren't. |
| There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself killed. |
| There is a fly on your nose. |
| There is a person with a shovel behind you ready to crack open your skull! |
| There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. - Julius Caesar IV.iii.217 |
| There is a world in which this sentence ends with a different word. |
| There is no bottom to worse. |
| There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. |
| There is no gift like the present. |
| There is no governor anywhere; you are absolutely free. |
| There is no language in our lungs. |
| There is no present like the TIMES. |
| There is no present like time. |
| There is no sin except stupidity. - Oscar Wilde |
| There is no time like the pleasant. |
| There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building. |
| There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax. |
| There must be a minimum of two responsible people per subdomain. - Mark Horton |
| There used to be men and women. Now there are men and persons. |
| There was a phone call for you. |
| There'll always be an England - if not it would be necessary to invent one. |
| There's a broken light for every heart on Broadway. |
| There's a difference between ethical people and nice people. You can't trust nice people. |
| There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will. |
| There's a sucker reborn every minute. |
| There's always one more bug. |
| There's got to be more to life than compile-and-go. |
| There's insanity in my family; starting with me, tonight. |
| There's no place like home. |
| There's no room in the drug world for amateurs. |
| There's something in this universe that I don't understand. -T. Duff |
| These calculations even schoolchildren can master in three-four days. -Maimonides |
| These numbers DO NOT appear to belong to anybody: 315 323 372 375 602 765 772 903 914 |
| These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world. - Joseph Addison. |
| They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... -- last words of Gen. John Sedgewick |
| They laughed at Copernicus; they laughed at Galileo; they laughed at Bozo the Clown. |
| They live happiest who have forgiven most. |
| They were easy to tell apart: the good Kirk was played by William Shatner and the evil one by Gavin McLeod. |
| They were easy to tell apart: the good Kirk wore cottons and wools and the evil Kirk wore nylons and polyesters. |
| They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid! |
| Things always look darkest just before they go totally black. -Col. Hannibal Smith |
| Things are more like they are now then they have ever been before. -Dwight D Eisenhower |
| Things are more like they used to be than they are new. |
| Things are more like they used to be than they are now. |
| Things are only as bad as they are and can only get worse if they do! |
| Things that go without saying go even better if they are said. -Talleyrand |
| Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face. |
| Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer crashes. |
| This *means* something. -R. Neary |
| This algorithm is prevented in the style of Dijkstra's guarded cowhands. |
| This fortune intentionally not included. |
| This fortune is inoperative. Please try another. |
| This fortune is self-explanatory, once you understand it. |
| This fortune left blank intentionally. |
| This fortune was not meant for you. |
| This is Emmanuel. I got him from Emmanuel Training School. He's Emmanuel like. |
| This is a full standard Kernighan & Ritchie C compiler. |
| This machine does not exist! Boy am I confused! |
| This refutation can only be refuted by a proof. - van den Herik 1985 |
| This space available. Call 686-7600 for details. |
| This statement is a lie. |
| This system hasn't crashed in ages. |
| This terminal is not for your use, please log off! |
| This time for sure! |
| This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it. |
| This will hurt me more than it hurts you. |
| Thos who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| Those who can't write, write manuals. |
| Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate. |
| Those who can, do; those who can't, write. |
| Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record. |
| Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| Those who in quarrels interpose must often wipe a bloody nose. |
| Those who talk don't know. Those who don't talk, know. |
| Thrashing is just before they go totally black. -Col. Hannibal Smith |
| Thrashing is just virtual crashing. |
| Three shoes do not a hat make. |
| Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. -Mark Twain |
| Time ends here, please go back the way you came. |
| Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
| Time is nature's way of making more anarchy. |
| Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. |
| Time is three eyes and eight elbows. |
| Timesharing just doesn't work. -K. Thompson, 1982. |
| To be clear is professional; not to be clear is unprofessional. -- Sir Ernest Gowers |
| To be is to be related. |
| To be or not to be, those are the parameters. |
| To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the competent. |
| To cross again is not to cross. |
| To err is human, to forgive is not libary [sic] policy. quoted by Herb Caen |
| To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer! |
| To err is human; that's why I'm comfortable around Gods. |
| To express e, remember to memorize a sentence to simplify this. |
| To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. |
| To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. |
| To live without clocks is to live forever. -RLS |
| To make an enemy, do someone a favor. |
| To make an omelette, you have to paint it. |
| To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth. |
| To possess another language is to possess another soul. -Charles V |
| Today is a good day to bribe a high-ranking public official. |
| Today is the first day of the rest of your miserable life. |
| Today is yesterday's tomorrow. |
| Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles -- Sunsweet marches on. |
| Together we must rise to higher and higher platitudes. -Richard Daley |
| Together we will rule the galaxy, father and son. Luke...it is your destiny. |
| Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree. |
| Too Much. |
| Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL. -Mae West |
| Torque is cheap. |
| Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. |
| Toto, I've a feeling we're not in any immediate danger of having just committed suicide! |
| Toutes choses sont dites deja, mais comme personne n'ecoute, il faut toujours recommencer. |
| Transformation is invested with the mysterious and the painful. |
| Travel important today; Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow. |
| Tres sabios hubo en el mundo, Adan, Solomom y Raymundo. |
| Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level. |
| Troubles are like babies; they only grow by nursing. |
| Trust Me. |
| Trust him, but still keep your eyes open. |
| Truth is only skin deep. |
| Truth is the ultimate weapon; fortunately no one has perfected it yet. - Ken Ellis |
| Truth will be out this morning. (Which may really mess things up.) |
| Try `stty 0' -- it works much better. |
| Try a new system or a different approach. |
| Try again |
| Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today. |
| Try to divide your time evenly to keep others happy. |
| Tu aideras a rappeler ta quantite a beaucoup de docteurs amis. |
| Turning the other cheek merely ensures two bruised cheeks. |
| Two fish in the sky are worth more than a bird in the sea. |
| Two heads are better than a bath and a half. |
| Two wrongs don't make a right. Two Wrights make airplanes. |
| U.S. out of OAKLAND! |
| UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. |
| UNIX acts as an equalizer of the hardware playing field. J. Scanlon |
| Unbidden guests/Are often welcomest when they are gone. |
| Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. |
| Unemployment is not a disease; so it has no `cure.' |
| Unix is the only significant operating system whose documentation fits in a student's briefcase. -John Lions (Fixed in 4.1BSD) |
| Unix never says `please.' -- Rob Pike |
| Unix soit qui mal y pense. |
| Unix: from now on, consider it dead. -Mike O'Dell |
| Unknown Jerome's -- Dorothy's desk -- $.25 while they last!! |
| Using 4.2 in this hospital is a great idea. |
| Usura contra naturum est. |
| Usus, Quen penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi. -Horace |
| VAX/VMS -- Software for the 60's. |
| VAX/VMS is like a nightmare about RSX. |
| Veni, vidi, maeni, mo, cacha tigrem baedas to, iffi hollers, ledem go, veni, vidi, maeni, mo. |
| Versatility is one of your outstanding traits. |
| Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars. |
| Vigilia pretium libertatis. |
| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvador Hardin |
| Viva Nuestra Señora Guadalupe y jueron gubernacion mala. -Father Hidalgo |
| Vivaldi did not write 600 concerti grossi. He wrote the same one 600 times. -Stravinski |
| Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit. |
| Vote anarchist. |
| Vox populi, vox Dei. -Alcuin |
| WAR IS PEACE. INFORMATION IS SLAVERY. OUR FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS. |
| Warning: I brake for no apparent reason. |
| Warning: perch lorethylene may harm plastic |
| Warning: this fortune may change your life. |
| Wars do not log out! |
| Waste not, get your budget cut next year. |
| Wasting time is an important part of living. |
| Watch out for quantum ducks: Quark! Quark! |
| We aim to please, but our aim is bad. |
| We are experiencing network trouble -- do not adjust your illegal descrambler. |
| We are faced with an insurmountable opportunity. -W. Kelley |
| We are not in any immediate danger of having solutions that exceed the needs. |
| We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -von Braun |
| We continue to overlook the fact that work has become a leisure activity. |
| We did it for nothing, we did it in an hour, and the whole thing worked. |
| We don't care, we don't have to-- we used to be the phone company. |
| We don't know half of what we know. |
| We don't need a standard; Kernighan & Ritchie completely defines the language. |
| We haul ours to kick theirs. |
| We have a really challenging assignment for you. |
| We have lost our little Hanner in a very painful manner. - Max Adeler. |
| We have met the enemy, and he is us. -Walt Kelly |
| We have the finest politicians money can buy. |
| We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. |
| We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -Franklin |
| We never stand still longer than it takes to have an argument. |
| We offer every assistance short of actual help. |
| We place no reliance/on Virgin or pigeon;/Our method is science,/Our aim is religion. -Aleister Crowley |
| We regard matrimony as a sort of friendship recognized by the police. |
| We retard what we cannot repel, we palliate what we cannot cure. -Johnson |
| We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. |
| We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. -S. Butler |
| We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. -K. Gibran |
| We should acknowledge the 10000-year sheep heritage of mankind. - Judge Clyde Burch. |
| We try harder, they do better. |
| We use it but we do not love it. -Goethe |
| We want no foreign rulers - fight the metric system. |
| We won't need reservations. |
| We would like to apologize for the following announcement: |
| We'll burn that bridge when we come to it... |
| We're going up there this weekend and I'm gonna get so roaring, stinkin', no-good drunk I won't be able to see. - mechanic in "The Blob". |
| We're scientists. We have to do things we hate -- that even sicken us. |
| We're too close to System Test. |
| We've lost 4 crays to the open environment. |
| Welcome to the working week. |
| Well, the handwriting is on the Titanic, why not go gentle into that good night? |
| Well, the handwriting is on the floor. -Joe E. Lewis |
| Well, we had Chinese food again for lunch. |
| What I like about scientists is that they are a team, so that one need not know their names. -J Wilmot |
| What I tell you three times is true. -The Hunting of the Snark. |
| What did you throw that book I wanted to be read to out of about Down Under out for? |
| What distinguishes good software from poor software is customer satisfaction. -Bob Yacobellis |
| What do you call a half-dozen Indians with Asian flu? Six sick Sikhs (sic). |
| What do you mean the 8080 & the 6502 are incompatible? They're both NMOS! |
| What does it mean if there is no fortune for you? |
| What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. |
| What good are the games if you ain't got the power? |
| What good is someone who can walk on water if you can't follow in his footsteps? |
| What have you done for Vic lately? |
| What if I go to New York and can't trust a menu? |
| What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -Thomas Hewitt Key |
| What is now proved was once only imagined. -William Blake |
| What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket. |
| What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. |
| What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -Peter S. Beagle |
| What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. |
| What's it all about? We're all tools. Life's just a crock. |
| What's the point to combing your hair when it's grey and thinning? |
| When all else fails, read the instructions. |
| When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. |
| When an Okie moves to California, he raises the IQ of both states. -Will Rogers |
| When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it's not there for the sack races. |
| When better machines are built, greg will break them. |
| When better machines are built, jks will break them, and td will bitch about it. |
| When bigger machines are built, scj will saturate them. |
| When does later become never? |
| When everyone's out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking. |
| When faced with the obvious -- look elsewhere. |
| When faced with two evils, one asks why only two? |
| When four sit to conspire, three are government agents, and the other a fool. |
| When in doubt, lead trump. |
| When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles; scream and shout. |
| When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. |
| When more and more people are out of work unemployment will result. -Calvin Coolidge. |
| When the Lord gets ready, you got to move. |
| When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. |
| When the going gets tough, the tough hold meetings. |
| When the map and the terrain disagree, trust the terrain. -Swiss army aphorism |
| When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it. |
| When time permits, your personal life will be exciting. |
| When traveling with a herd of elephants, don't be first to lie down and rest. |
| When you are over the hill, you pick up speed. |
| When you need a sledgehammer, the finest scalpel just won't do. |
| When you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, then DO! |
| Whenever I see his fingernails, I thank God I don't have to look at his feet. |
| Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I haven't tried before. -Mae West |
| Whenever the Queen comes to New Zealand the Maori people suffer a disaster. |
| Where do you think you are, Civilization? |
| Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. -Wittgenstein |
| While I see many hoof-marks going in, I see none coming out. - Aesop. |
| Who can worry about a super-hero who vanishes when you change channels? |
| Who is W. O. Baker, and why is he saying those terrible things about me? |
| Who is the slayer, who the slain? Speak... -Sophocles, Oedipus Rex |
| Who knows if there are any answers? -Edmund G. Brown, Jr. |
| Who needs companionship when you can sit alone in your room and drink? |
| Who ordered that? -I.I. Rabi on the discovery of the muon |
| Who's afraid of Louisa May Alcott? |
| Whom the gods must destroy they first must drive insane. |
| Why be a second rate Ravel when you can be a first rate Gershwin? |
| Why do they have this marked "Danger, do not touch"? |
| Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3D movies with. |
| Why don't we store the blank punch cards on disk, and get rid of all those boxes. |
| Why is it called a stream I/O system when the data flows both ways? |
| Why polish the corners off a sphere in a roomful of cubes? |
| Why worry about tomorrow, when today is so far off? |
| Will nobody help the widow's son? |
| With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. |
| With redeeming social value like yours, no wonder you're obscene. |
| With the wind in the east I can tell an eagle from a hammer. |
| With/Without -- and who denies it's what the fighting's all about? |
| Without alkaloids, life itself would be impossible. |
| Wombat omnia vincet. |
| Wombs not bombs |
| Women seldom show dimples to guys who have pimples. |
| Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. |
| Words are the voice of the heart. |
| Words must be weighed, not counted. |
| Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. -C.N. Parkinson |
| Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see. |
| Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. |
| Y drag goch yr y gchwyn! |
| Yamata wasami shuza. |
| Yea, from the table of my memory/I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. |
| Yes, the red switch. |
| Yesterday's sensation is today's calibration and tomorrow's background. -Valentine Telegdi |
| Yogsothoth Neblod Zin. |
| You always think you know what you're doing, but you're too slick for your own good. |
| You are going to have a new love affair. |
| You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. |
| You are original and creative. |
| You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity. |
| You auto buy now. |
| You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive. |
| You can get HELP any time you are using TEACH by returning to the command state and typing "S 160". |
| You can lead a horticulture but you cannot make her think. - Dorothy Parker |
| You can observe a lot just by watching. -Yogi Berra |
| You can tell a man by the company that keeps him. |
| You can't beat the bugs. |
| You can't build a bomb at 300 baud. |
| You can't capitalize your cake and expense it too. |
| You can't comb a hairy ball smooth. |
| You can't fall off the floor. |
| You can't forward backward. - Dave Nowitz |
| You can't go home again, unless you set $HOME |
| You can't have everything -- where would you put it? |
| You can't miss it. |
| You can't teach a dead dog new tricks. |
| You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game. |
| You can't win. But there are alternatives to fighting. |
| You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it. |
| You cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels. |
| You cannot cross a chasm in two steps. |
| You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. |
| You cook it, you sell it. |
| You dialed 5483 |
| You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy. |
| You don't have to play tennis any more, or talk to anyone who does. |
| You don't really want to know what the future holds for you. |
| You had mail. |
| You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself. |
| You have been selected for a secret mission. |
| You have been transfixed by the gaze of the Edlund.--More-- |
| You have bills. |
| You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business. |
| You have made an excellent hit on the UNIX.--More-- |
| You have mail. |
| You have personal talents that are attractive to others. Be sure to use them. |
| You have plate mail. |
| You have slowmail. |
| You have snails. |
| You have splint mail. |
| You have taken yourself too seriously. |
| You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. |
| You know, Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. |
| You know, you never know. |
| You look strong enough to pull the ears off a Gundark! |
| You make the megabucks, I make the nanobucks...it's YOUR problem. |
| You may be recognized soon. Hide. |
| You may enjoy the infamous PEOPLExpress snack pack for one dollar. |
| You may have a friend at the Chase Manhattan but at our bank you have meshpocheh! |
| You might have mail. |
| You need not worry about your future - it's going to be rotten. |
| You never know what you don't know, you know? |
| You now have Asian Flu. |
| You press the button, and we'll do the rest. |
| You remind me of a TV show, but that's all right: I watch it anyway. |
| You scream and you leap. |
| You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider. |
| You should go home. |
| You tend to be shy when undressing outdoors. |
| You want it bad, you'll get it bad. |
| You weren't here so we did it anyway. |
| You will attend a party where strange customs prevail. |
| You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself. |
| You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old. |
| You will be surprised by a loud noise. |
| You will feel hungry again in another hour. |
| You will get a better gorilla effect if you use as big a piece of paper as possible. |
| You will make a small sum by investing in a business project. |
| You will make a small sum disappear by investing in a business project. |
| You will make many changes before settling satisfactorily. |
| You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. |
| You will step on the night soil of many countries. |
| You win some, you lose some, and some go into extra innings. |
| You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry. |
| You'll just have to sleep faster tonight. |
| You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days. |
| You're so bossy you ought to be milked before you come home at night. |
| You're so ugly you couldn't even get a better mouse. |
| You're so ugly you couldn't even get a date with an automated bank teller. |
| You've always got the option of having just committed suicide! |
| You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture. |
| Your First Amendment ends where the next person's Bill of Rights begins. P. Michael Guba |
| Your best dreams may not come true; but then neither will your worst dreams. |
| Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize. |
| Your editor doesn't always know best. |
| Your emotional nature is strong and sensitive |
| Your empty file directory has been deleted. |
| Your intuition is excellent but another viewpoint could be helpful. |
| Your login has been changed. |
| Your love life will be happy and harmonious. |
| Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true. |
| Your opponent wouldn't fight if he didn't think he had a chance. |
| Your password is pitifully obvious. |
| Your present plans are going to succeed. |
| Your supervisor is thinking about you. |
| Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true. |
| Zero is greater than minus zero, but don't ask by how much. -6600 ref. manual |
| `By the way, microcode is no big deal. You can emulate it in random logic.' |
| `Compared to academic politics, political politics is a nice, clean game.' -S. I. Hayakawa, SF Examiner 4/23/84 |
| `Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.' |
| `He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes...' |
| `I saw it with my own eyes' means you wanted to see it. |
| `Otto' spelled inside out is `toot.' |
| `Qvid me anxivs svm?' |
| `She read her boyfriend's mind, and they're no longer going together,' Mrs. Resch added. |
| `The time (6:39 pm) has come,' the Walrus said, `to talk of many things...' |
| `The time has come,' the Walrus said, `to talk of many things...' |
| `We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.' |
| ``I'm a hugger, I'm a tactile politician,'' Turner said. |
| `is false when preceded by its quotation' is false when preceded by its quotation. |
| `is not a sentence' is not a sentence. |
| awk: Usage: awk [-f source | 'cmds'] [files]; record number 3.55646e-311 |
| awk: illegal statement 206620 |
| bad input char: .Ppm{=P!*@)Z9oFPp|*?)Z9pv9i%Su$^J)48%K_e239GM#ffoq!!!"!Mp#V6N\H8uEgdXbP\[7j1&PJz!X76!4BA}5!!!!!"syui!!!"!Mp#V6P\Scb?p8`;!4lf& |
| beware of component 3730 |
| cc: warning: -g disables -O |
| chess tonight |
| dis: invalid general addressing mode (e8); notify disassembler implementor |
| f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr pgmng. |
| f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb n tk wr |
| f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd. |
| fortune: Command not found. |
| fortune: not found |
| ftp> Globbing off. |
| ftp> Globbing on. |
| grep: RE error 41: No remembered search string. |
| gt: warning -- bad idea to override alpha computation on matted-to-black target |
| He who lives by the nit dies by the pick. |
| invalid control line !!! |
| itiprobe says hi |
| jim is a nice editor except that it runs on the Blit. -- W. Joy |
| no shell. |
| non-positive output count: .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| not not not Algol |
| panic: trap |
| pic: 5 X 58008 picture shrunk to 0.000603365 X 7 |
| pm monday am |
| reading symbols...done |
| size: a.out: bad magic |
| startup: system error -- directory deleted |
| struct sleaziness { char *pleasure; int alchemically; }; |
| too much. |
| ucode rev x62 |
| unknown troff command: We will interpret typing statements A@imp#M:@gr(s)# |
| unseal: invalid length |
| usend: /usr/asp/spool filesystem is exhausted |
| uucp failed completely (11) |
| uucp failed partially: 0 file(s) sent; 1 error(s) |
| uuxqt cmd (rnews ) status (ucsfcgl!uucp 256) |
| values of β will give rise to dom! |
| warning: vector size unknown: p[i][j] means *(*(p+i)+j) |
| There's no backspace in real life. - P.J.Weinberger |
| When a musk ox goes faster than an amble, he has formed an intention. |
| Verb is a noun. |
| Verb is not a verb. |
| Verb is not a verb, unless it's verbed. |
| Version 8 Unix style Ritchie streams. |
| Space shuttle experience is more common than C++ |
| CA002 - [CAL] ASSEMBLY TIME: 0.000000 CPU SECONDS |
| Within her left armpit only the fish called raawaru are there. |
| In her right armpit, snapper only are the fish of that place. |
| In days of yore, the crab and the crayfish lived in the forest. |
| "C" is as portable as Stonehedge!! |
| Any mail routed through "emacs" will probably fail without benefit of a bounce-back. |
| Although the moon is only 1/100 the size of the earth, it is much further away. |
| Never walk across a river that has an average depth of four feet. |
| chdir: ?I/O error: `I/O error' |
| ON SATURDAY SUPERMAN WILL BE UNAVAILABLE FOR A MAJOR HARDWARE RECONFIGURATION |
| 03:23:33 0.0017 USER CLOSE CALLS - 8 |
| It's clear that buzzwording is a factor. |
| Dallas stands for culture with a 'K'. |
| Huge directory ./src/port --call administrator |
| CC119 - Dead code generated for vacuous expr. |
| Resent-Comment: It's not OUR mailer. Maybe it's yours. |
| * Method As described above, see details below. |
| Take your hands off me. |
| You don't have to give me all the gory details about how you got hepatitis. |
| Who's the big cheese around here? |
| What a surprise to find you here alone! |
| Ouch! That feels good! |
| How exciting to see you in traction again! |
| Either I've been missing something, or nothing has been going on. |
| You crossed my mind, but you didn't stay there. |
| Should you die, I'd go mad so I could talk to you all the time. |
| If you'll take me where I want to go, I'll take you where you think we are. |
| If snow is wet, what is light? |
| If your intentions are really good, I'll never understand them. |
| Whatever happens, happens because it must. |
| Get out, and take your mucus with you. |
| I wanna lick the syrup off your hotcakes. |
| I've got you under my skin; moreover, you've invaded my lymph. |
| All I do is wait for your clumsy hands to make mincemeat of my apparel. |
| More than just a book -- it's a major piece of torture. |
| Great men are not always idiots. |
| Unrequited love's a bore. -- Billie Holiday |
| I wish people wouldn't say "Excuse me" when I WANT them to step on my feet. |
| Life is a stage attacked by an idiot. |
| No one wants to get into his grave still feeling frisky. -- Quentin Crisp |
| (warning) data origin prohibits saving reloc bits |
| ## wc is a Berkeley-ism, I think. |
| Boost, don't knock |
| NEW fsname = x, NEW volname = 49a126 -- DEL if wrong!! |
| New Jersey has more people per capita than any other state.- Alan Karcher, D, NJ |
| Significantly improved programming is only a reply card away. |
| An AI journal without hype? That's like a hot air balloon without the hot air. |
| UNIX is a trademark of AT&T in the U.S.A. and other countries. |
| 554 Who are you? |
| Anything is possible, and it usually does. - John Lions |
| When you become a streetwalker, you don't write home very much. |
| Few forgive without a fuss. |
| Your contraption is better than mine. |
| Very well, I'll slick your hair down myself. |
| If Lucifer confesses, we'll let the rest of you go. |
| pass 2 error:(file ) more than 100 args? |
| in read: Error 0 |
| There's a time and a place for spontaneity. |
| I am a little more weird today than normal. - Andrew Hume |
| You will be fortunate in everything you put your hands to. |
| If nothing is pressing, putter around at this or that. |
| Whatever arrangements you make are apt to be final. |
| If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. |
| There's going to be no serious problem after this. - Ken Thompson |
| If you can stick your finger in it, you can hang from it. -Andrew Hume |
| Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down. - Dennis Ritchie |
| Thank you for using AT&T! |
| Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead. |
| Nepal premier won't resign. |
| Surprises unlikely in Indiana. |
| University of Rochester decides to keep name. |
| In the long run, we are all dead. -Keynes |
| Debate goes on over the nature of reality. |
| Reach out and Boyer-Moore egrep someone. |
| The solution is to increase the size of the manuals. - Mark V. Shaney |
| `C' is for `core dumped.' |
| redefinition: GLOBL 153352(gok(-118))[A7*16],gok(-116)/-937488177[R0*0] |
| The electron: May it never be of use to anybody. - toast at the Cavendish Labs. |
| Delivered-Automatically-By: the Magical Vacatioin Program |
| Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans! |
| Abstain wholly from laurel leaves. |
| init: /dev/console: getty failing, sleeping |
| 25% of all books from Bell Labs are written by Narain Gehani. |
| Try to clear up differences with associates |
| * W * :test$cstatic$chatypedef$st$int$$cnt$$unsigned$$unsigned$$char$$fla$char$$fil$$FILEo: 1: CC019 - Old-fashioned Initialization. Use '=' Instead. |
| The atom of hydrogen contains about a thousand electrons. - J.J. Thomson, 1903 |
| The unique power of UNIX (UPOU) is that vi includes awk. |
| Yes, I want a drink. Alcoholic, of course; after the heavy sessions regarding quantum mechanics. |
| * W * :../os/main.c: 64: CC042 - Instruction Will Cause Infinite Loop |
| But issues remain in the AT&T Information Systems unit. |
| The major problem is with sendmail. -Mark Horton |
| Michigan House Fails to Override Veto of Medicaid Abortion Ban. |
| The -v option increases user-friendliness. |
| Every good joke has a short punch line. |
| What is the origin of the Grand Canyon? A Scotsman lost a nickel. |
| Sentence without verb. |
| mh/toy/forbes deferred for sequence |
| "":5:operands of ++ have incompatible types |
| How do you explain that you changed your mind when you changed your hat? -Wm. Rogers |
| The Devil Still Exists, Says Pope, Contradicting Polls |
| When andrew asks you to type pwd for him, don't do it. |
| Variable syntax. |
| WARNING: You may see display garbage as a result of this action. |
| WYSIWYG processing and a "vi"-like user interface - the best of both worlds! :-) |
| strip: arno: bad magic |
| There appears to be a paper jam, dammit p&P6. |
| As Maine goes, so goes Vermont. -Alf Landon |
| If you enter a village where everyone is lame, eventually you will start to limp. |
| That's the way I got promoted, by eating everything. -pjw |
| charge.c: 163: CC001 - Internal Compiler Error 69 . Debug: (412127)request for s1 but pseudo already in s3 |
| In 1974 it was hard to find anyone who voted for Richard Nixon in 1972. |
| Charlie don't hack. |
| A strange event will change your idea of a good time. |
| I just resent the newgroup messages. -Rick Adams |
| I'm not easily impressed on Mondays. -Bruce Ellis |
| Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -Jean Cocteau |
| What he's asking you to do is only mildly disgusting -- try it, you might like it. |
| The 1980's have quite appropriately been called the age of nail extension products. |
| Wonder woman will be down Saturday, November 15th for hardware maintenance. |
| Arbitrary makes free. |
| Don't puting nathing in the line. Today is washing poison machine. |
| Pittsburgh has become a kind of knowledge aircraft carrier, its "top-guns" scattered regularly around the planet. |
| The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. -Duchamp |
| Per dollar, the cray is cheaper to maintain than the comets. -pjw |
| The entire LC comp center will be shut down from 12/12 to 12/15 for annual maintenance on our Uninterruptable Power Supply. |
| Hit the water! Hit the water! |
| Try psychoacoustic imagery risk free! |
| Hit me with your mid-point, she said meanly. |
| The secretaries don't understand me. -Rob Pike |
| I have a brain. -Kerry Harrigan |
| System won't be available tomorrow 12/04 from 18:00 to 20:00 to install new cross compiler. |
| Some logins deserve a message. Some don't. Yours does. Here's mine. |
| God has spoken to me through chocolate fudge cake. |
| Some day, when the universe has its heat death, they will look back and say `There are 12 Cray-2s'. -pjw |
| When the music stops, the house of cards collapses and the emperor is found to be wearing no clothes. |
| pwedit: error in input file in item 2305843009213693953 at field 1 |
| Decreased cabin volume was insufficient to support human life. |
| When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Goethe |
| elongated pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda (J41): 21/36 ambiguous hinges |
| Total performance commercial carpet in convenient 18" squares |
| A procedure can never use its own name in any way except to refer to itself. |
| I'm a GEI kind of guy. - J Bentley |
| eqn: illegal size of ignored near line 386, file part.5 |
| Music is the can opener of the soul. -Henry Miller |
| Robert Elz is the Mark Horton of the south. - P. Dick-Lauder |
| 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 mp 1239 Jan 17 09:40 hite upper middle class IS AN INVALID DESTINATION. |
| Rest frequently while shoveling snow. |
| Never put snow on a frostbitten part. |
| Eat more fish and less red meat. |
| Drive away from a tornado at a right angle. |
| Start off the day with a nourishing meal. |
| Keep stairways clear of clutter. |
| Discard medicine more than two years old. |
| Stopping smoking slows emphysema's progress. |
| Reduce speed in wet or foggy weather. |
| Lengthen interval when the road is wet. |
| Before physical activity warm up gradually. |
| Don't eat a large meal before driving. |
| Get help when lifting heavy objects. |
| Don't use gasoline for cleaning. |
| Put a smoke detector in your vacation cottage. |
| Always read the labels on pesticides. |
| To avoid falls watch where you step. |
| To overcome stress do things that relax you. |
| Popcorn is a good fiber food. |
| Gray-tinted sunglasses reduce glare the most. |
| Cut down on fatty, high-calorie foods. |
| Use a salt substitute if blood pressure's high. |
| Replace worn electrical cord without delay. |
| Good passing rule: when in doubt, don't. |
| Bicycle with the traffic flow. |
| For relief submerge a bum in cold water. |
| Always check fire exits in hotels and motels. |
| Draw up a family fire-escape plan. |
| Go with your kids when you go trick or treating. |
| Take your car in for a tune-up. |
| Carry a medical information card. |
| Keep flammables away from space heaters. |
| Buckle up even on short auto trips. |
| Drive with the traffic not against the clock. |
| Send your party guests home sober. |
| Let me put it to you this way: computers are my business. - A.G. Hume |
| Business is where the money is. - John Scully (CEO of Apple) |
| Anything with the word 'generation' in it has to be wrong. - T.A. Cargill |
| Today's technological mastery is tomorrow's obsolescence. |
| 23582.0u 2166.7s 21404r mk |
| A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -Paul Erdös |
| SCAPEGOAT=rob |
| sh: /dev/null restricted |
| Do not smoke near an open drawer. - Bell Labs safety manual. |
| Like Nero, the government fiddled while Rome burned--only it wasn't Rome. -- Jim Olson |
| FYI: POWER DIP OCCURED YESTERDAY AT 21:55...IS YOUR 3B2 OK??? |
| Don't ignore where the writer is in the draft. |
| Hunting & Fishing licenses are free to the blind, handicapped or mentally retarded. |
| mail: new message arrived |
| Bad termcap entry |
| Reverting to old tty driver... |
| Thank you for using AT&T. |
| The preferred steel for rodent protection is Type 304 stainless with a thickness of 3 mils. |
| I'm TRYING to be a back end! - A Hume |
| Stay clear of falling objects. |
| 5/26: /unix2 out of pace please clean up!!!!! |
| Redundant hardware is not cost-effective when compared to administration-mediation solutions. |
| Warning: .lastlogin was altered since last login |
| If it's Weinberger, I'm going with Ditzel. - rob |
| If you have any questions, call Ralph Knag at MH x5291 |
| Possession is nine-tenths of the privileged computer access code of ethics. |
| Ignorance of the privileged computer access code of ethics is no excuse. |
| It's not easy being Joan. -- rob |
| Omit needless words that cause verbosity. |
| rx: call to gauss failed: who_cares |
| chown to owner: Not owner |
| There are only 26 calls and most of them are trivial. |
| In this country, everything loose rolls to the west coast. -T. Vanderslice, Apollo |
| We have people doing a lot of fun stuff. That doesn't mean you don't wear suits. -R. Pampel, Apollo |
| ROOT MODIFIED |
| I don't have any courses for which I haven't written books. -Andy Tanenbaum |
| Stop. |
| (a0719) u wPM-US-Add a0712-a07rethan80mph.Thearrestingpatrolmanaskedhimifwantedtochecktheinstrumentusedtorecordhishighspeed. 07-21 0794 |
| 550 ians... User unknown: Not a typewriter |
| DELTA backup is running, system response will be slightly degraded. |
| tar: slg/duckstuff/desktop/UNIXpractice.drw/shortcuts.fdr/spaces?slashes.fdr/.@questions and comments.doc: file name too long |
| The world should be full of Brian Kernighans and technical people. -J Macor |
| If you keep an open mind, people will put a lot of garbage in it. |
| A monoid is an associative monad; its underlying magma is a semigroup. |
| 162 is unimplemented |
| Norm does not protect against overflow. - cos(9.3) |
| Content-Length: 0 |
| In our system, /usr/include/sys is a hazard. -mvs |
| Awk is certainly not perfect. - The Awk Book |
| Areas of communication may be very busy at present. |
| Gratuitously incomplete sentence. |
| xyv: protocol fault for some string |
| You are the sponsor for the account andrew (Andrew Hume). |
| I am not worried about the real world. -Pamela Zave |
| To 8 AM EDT /79: high 63 low 5, prob. precip. to 8 PM 0% to 8 AM 2147477332% |
| Digital plans to offer a better solution, not a better product. - R. Glorioso, DEC |
| I've got it! It's a triple helix! L. Pauling 1954. |
| Incest more common than thought in United States |
| RFC 822 delenda est. |
| I'm not writing any more tapes, ever. -A. Hume. |
| Subject: Please ignore extra headers |
| I wouldn't take any advice, if I were you. |
| The blue drinks are $5.75, the pink $8.00. |
| You are unlucky enough to bump into all my rough edges. -A. Hume |
| When you're getting fired at from both sides, you're in the middle of something. |
| A vertical conference is a center-wide conference. - Steve Bellovin |
| It is Unix. It is possible to overcome any number of these bogus features. -pjw |
| "term/select.c", line 116: compiler error: bad bigsize: 010 |
| Sorry, I don't know how to deal with your 'dumb' terminal. |
| I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. -Baghavad Gita (quoted by Oppenheimer) |
| The product classroom is marked pass-fail. |
| An X server itself is not a big piece of software, only a few 100K. |
| So, the next time something doesn't work, just push 'til it clicks. -Ag Primatic |
| I have a different view of the world. -Andrew Hume. Show&Tell '87 |
| For 40 days and 40 nights, you [Arthur Fadden] held the destiny of Australia in the hollow of your head. -Arthur Calwell |
| The best weapon against breast cancer is early detention. |
| Licorice is the liver of candy. -Michael O'Donoghue |
| Al Schumann, that devil-may-care Intern from FSD is leaving Tom Houghton's Security Group. |
| Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. -Eisenhower |
| Is there no room for competition in the standards industry? -R. Hardin |
| Now is not the time to be falling out of windows. -R Mclellan |
| A universal thought dispenses with communication. |
| ISDN is real and implementable. |
| When a man celebrates his God, he changes his sex. |
| The rays of the Sun are penholders which night gorges with ink. -- Reb Adal |
| Warning: system out of share structures, using "root". |
| Wed Dec 30 21:27:30 1987 EDT |
| 5. Il riversamento = dump in inglese. |
| E tutta colpa di Ken! |
| Ken is an allem schuld! |
| C'est la faute de Ken! |
| Het is de schuld van Ken. |
| I've got lots of bad examples. -td |
| (void)vacuous(node); |
| I'd rather have :rofix than const. -DM Ritchie |
| To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has. - J Baudrillard |
| unlinking v/v1971/272; already have /n/bowell/usr/games |
| FAILING HW: DEC |
| Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. -Quine |
| Received: from Messages.6.0.CUILIB.3.41.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.holmes.andrew.cmu.edu.rt.r3 via MS.4.0.holmes.andrew.cmu.edu.rt_r3 |
| The better your 4-wheel drive, the further out you get stuck. |
| With Basic you just use a GOTO, with Pascal you have to indent 99% of the program halfway across the page! -Ted M. Young (A Basic programmer for 12 years) |
| You know your apartment's small if you can't tell its position and speed simultaneously. |
| ... Forking an allegro process requires only seconds... -V. Kelly |
| Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. |
| Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction. |
| One hundred humidities equal one rain. |
| Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should. |
| Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there. |
| Thunder is a rich source of loudness. |
| But an autopsy on the woman's headless body failed to reveal why she died. |
| For ease of arithmetic we call 256 the largest index even though it is really 255, except at 255 itself. -- from a manual |
| Only the future is certain; the past is always changing. -Polish proverb |
| A victory is the greatest tragedy in the world, except a defeat. -Wellington |
| A victory is the greatest tragedy in the world, except SunWindows. -Wellington |
| If you don't have a sense of humor, it's just not funny. -Wavy Gravy |
| Noalias must go. This is non-negotiable. -Dennis Ritchie |
| We are currently experiencing all printing problems |
| Due to illness, the /tbl design review is postponed until further notice. |
| Due to technical problems, the BEST movie will be shown tommorrow. |
| We say space is 3 dimensional because prison walls are 2 dimensional. -Hermann Weyl |
| Two wrongs don't make a right; three lefts do. |
| I've got plenty of inputs and outputs. I don't need the video. -Andrew Hume |
| Cannot open phone book for <attrd>. Try a different company. |
| con: connecting to coma |
| We may be bureaucrats but we are not venal. -IRS Chief Counsel William Nelson |
| Children can be substituted for adults in any case; however adults cannot be substituted for children. -Amtrak |
| Education is basically useless, except for those rare cases when it's not really necessary. -Feynman |
| Your 1 requests have been sent |
| The book every man has inside him should usually stay there. - AJP Taylor |
| X windows uses its hindbrain instead of its forebrain. -N Wilson |
| Cryptogamous concretion never grows on mineral fragments that decline repose. |
| The best place to find new dinosaurs is to look in basements. -Robert T. Bakker |
| DUE TO DAMAGES, ALL SHREDDERS ARE OUT OF SERVICE. |
| ?12 Machine check during machine check. |
| Things greater than the same thing are greater than each other. -L. Carroll (Sylvie and Bruno) |
| UX:cat: ERROR: usage: cat [-u][-s][-v[-t][-e]] file ...; TO FIX: refer to manual UX:cat:138 |
| There are no known bugs on the old versions of grep, fgrep, or sed that will cause any instability in the operating systems. |
| How do they know that flies carry diseases unknown to man? -BW Kernighan |
| A fully declared Common Lisp program is as robust as assembly language. |
| It's not who you know, but who you get drunk with, that counts. -P Dick-Lauder |
| The knee is the Achilles heel of the leg. |
| buf[hdr[0]] = 0; /* unbelievably lazy ken (twit) */ - Andrew Hume |
| Only one man ever understood me. And he didn't understand me. -Hegel (on his deathbed) |
| X is a temporary standard, like FORTRAN. - Andries van Dam |
| Just think--IBM and DEC in the same room--and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside. -K Thompson |
| Nuclear war doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. |
| The downside of having an architecture is wart-for-wart compatibility. -Bob Willard, DEC |
| When the dinosaurs are mating, climb a tree. -SC Johnson |
| They made me a department head for little junky programs like this. -PJ Weinberger |
| The longest POSIX error name is ENAMETOOLONG |
| Hi! This is your favorite irritation -- Andrew! |
| Optimal clutch power comes after eight to ten couplings. -LEGO manual |
| rhknag 118 248 1 0 107 72761 dk04 R 903:10 tabs |
| b f BC-DadaStream% 0Advisory 08-!9 0050^ thelist mofing soon. ^The AP A@-NB- 8-19-(' 1353EDT< |
| sed: Too much text: s/blow your own horn/BLOW YOUR OWN HORN/ |
| There is just a little bit of Star Trek in all of the love you feel for another human being. -Mark V. Shaney |
| The two problems in supercomputer design are the thickness of the mat and getting rid of the heat. -S. Cray |
| Don't store your records anywhere you wouldn't store your valium! |
| "trans.c":31932:compiler error: out of temporary string space |
| It doesn't matter if you don't know how your program works, so long as it's parallel -R. O'Keefe |
| DAMNIT, I AM NOT TOUCHY!!!! (and you can stick that in your fortunes file) -G. Holzmann |
| find: missing conjunction |
| reading worm0 directory (a couple of minutes) |
| Warning: .lastlogin did not exist, creating it |
| Fungus doesn't take a vacation. -Rob Pike |
| Murder should be put back in the home--where it belongs. -Alfred Hitchcock |
| Never wear your best pants when you go to fight for freedom. |
| On average, pantyhose wearers buy three pairs per month. |
| Hello new user, welcome to the Sun computing environment |
| If you have any questions about your Sun workstation, please call CORNET 624-2772 |
| "Coma" is not the sort of name I'd use if I were striving to present a professional image. -M Horton |
| Facts are stupid things. -R.W. Reagan |
| sendmail[94] AA00493: SYSERR: net hang reading from coma: Connection timed out during greeting wait with coma |
| In the last 100 years man's capability started to grow exponentially, to literally explode. -E. E. Sumner |
| inews: Article rejected: mvs included more text than new text |
| For gift delivery anywhere call 1-800-CHEER-UP (except where prohibited by law). |
| sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: too big |
| How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work? |
| JUMP DON'T SIT |
| ?warning: write might change good version of `/dev/null' |
| 550 backbone... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device |
| A lot about zarf is buggered. -AR Koenig |
| /dev/rra13: !!counts may be wrong, RERUN chuck! |
| There is no such thing as a Berkeley UNIX system. -J Herndon |
| If your mailer pays attention to pathalias output, it obviously isn't dumb. - comp.mail.uucp |
| Performance doesn't matter if your product is sufficiently feature-rich. --SF system engineer |
| considering 3 files, 0 already backed up |
| file transfer: unexpected return 'O' (0117) from backup logger |
| remember, things can still go awry until your files appear in backup grep |
| 10/03:System crashed 11am,Motor Generator Failure.System back at 11:30am. |
| perform: Stale NFS file handle |
| (Note: an infected 8800 is an awesome engine of contagion.) |
| I believe that robots are stealing my luggage. -- Steve Martin. |
| $ Editor (vi or emacs)? |
| The reason you subscribe to a mailing list is you don't get all the crap you get on netnews. -DM Ritchie |
| The Nobel Peace Prize is something worth fighting for. |
| A fault is generally handled with a fault-handling procedure (called a fault handler) -intel 80960 ref man |
| gets. A clock-tick of convenience. A process-lifetime of regret. -John Woods |
| PLEASE LOG IN TO 3B20'S AT 4800 BAUD. |
| Even consistent crap is better than random crap. - Brian Redman |
| panic: pagefault as_hole |
| looking on optical disk (this may take a few minutes) |
| Ksh was broken on alice for a while. It hasn't dumped core lately - is it now safe to use? |
| The difference between a computer scientist and a hacker is that the computer scientist knows what an exponential is. -MD McIlroy |
| new worm (and worm-related backup stuff) soaking on wild. |
| MS/DOS is not dead, it just smells that way |
| For detailed information on the "info" command, type "man info". |
| We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. - Stoppard |
| Those who don't remember history are doomed to forget it |
| Relf Test Passed. |
| Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. -Sir Robert Hutchinson |
| SQUASH, do not crush (seen on a vegetable crate) |
| A factor of 3000 is actually significant - Andrew Hume |
| The difference between languages is what makes a language different. |
| seqno is 21, should be 21 |
| Trucks must enter weigh station when flashing. |
| It's anl bart's fault! |
| *** ERROR, The clock must be ON to execute HALT command |
| rm: /n/coma/usr/norman/goo: File exists |
| ENV='${START[(_$-=1)+(_=0)-(_$-!=_${-%%*i*})]}' |
| Pure English is de rigeur. |
| Think globally ... Post locally att!hoqax!lmg |
| "Looks uncomputable to me" said Tom, haltingly. |
| Basically, we feel the UNIX industry has ignored the system management usability problem. |
| If you get to meet sufficently important people, it's ok to debase yourself. -pjw |
| --rw-rw-r-- f 0 bwk bwk 58372782 Jan 24 12:21 .profile |
| Take 2*3*5*7*11*13. It's divisible by 59. -Matt Crawford |
| cc: not found |
| Make checks payable to Free Software Foundation. |
| WARNING: Your password will expire in 13 days |
| These Robs,..and Conserves, are not to be given to costive Bodies. -- OED |
| Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T. All Rights Reserved |
| Both PH and FFF leave Ackermann's function coughing in the exhaust. |
| You can get a lot of riding mowers for a college education. -Bill Cheswick |
| Most programmers have no idea what they're getting into when they're programming in a windowing environment. -Mark Hanner |
| I have just spent two afternoons in Summit, and I am not happy. -pjw |
| Say what you will about the savings and loan crisis, it has done wonders for the ampersand. |
| SLOT 7 IS NOT EMPTY, THEREFORE THIS TEST DOES NOTHING |
| The system is ready. |
| /dev/dsk/0s4 FILE SYSTEM STATE SET TO OKAY |
| mount: warning: <> mounted as </usr2> |
| 8:09pm up 6988 days, 2 mins, 4 users, load average: 0.00, -91189828086942664000000000000000000.00, -69406721174048.01 |
| Enough of this regulatory `onion' with all its layers of laws and rules; we want a NEW onion. -Robert Allen |
| The water-carrier drinks no slime. |
| At home even wood tastes good. |
| When the cat dies, the mice rejoice. |
| Drink beer, think beer. |
| Brotherly love for brotherly love, but cheese for money. |
| A mean guy shouldn't have any wine. |
| Humans are not pigs; they'll eat anything. |
| A watermelon will not ripen in your armpit. |
| Every day is not Friday; there is also Tuesday. |
| In the forest a skillet sounds like music. |
| Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them. |
| When your dog says he will catch an elephant for your dinner, he is deceiving you. |
| Do not blow into a bear's ear. |
| The best of the 36 plans is to run away. |
| Do not tell proverbs in winter; if you do, the toads will visit you. |
| Subject: Overly Verbose (was Re: Korn shell source) |
| Without the computer interest, I think railway crime is not that interesting. -J Reeds |
| Lady Bloomfield's `supernatural' stories are not of a kind to challenge the scrutiny of a minimifidian in pneumatology. -Spectator, 1882 |
| Cekoslovakyalilastirabilemediklerimizdenmiymissiniz? |
| Contrary to English and other similar languages, Turkish can be hyphenated with a simple 4 state finite-state machine. |
| All the world is an Interdata. -DM Ritchie |
| Your wife is right, you're a jerk. |
| tail -1 $0|tee -a `grep -l ^#!/bin/sh \`{ls;grep -l vIrUs *}|sort|uniq -u'\``>/dev/null 2>&1 |
| ODIN will be down Sunday 4/2 from 8am - 9am for EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME CHANGE. |
| If you post, don't frame, and if you roff, don't post. |
| The fifty dwarves were reduced to eight before anyone suspected Hungry. |
| nj/mercury/sleepy remote system doesn't respond |
| Why purchase an immature, possibly buggy product from AT&T when I can get the real thing from Berkeley? |
| Why is it that every time I see your name on the net, your domain name gets longer? |
| Aibohphobia (n.) abnormal fear of palindromes. |
| "System V" is a marketing campaign, not an implementation. |
| nop...session...attach...clone...walk...open... |
| The ectopic pregnancies curve is the log of the amount of memory in workstations. -dmr |
| usage: ls -RadCLHxmnlogrtucpFbqisf [files] |
| Ignore my last message. -ark |
| Ask Eduardo Krell. |
| Ubi legis, ibi fugis. -Don Ingraham, Alameda County Asst. DA |
| ?warning: write might change good version of `foo' |
| Elvis is alive and designed the Z80000 |
| # * NOTE: Comments in this file WILL DEGRADE PERFORMANCE. * |
| The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. -K Thompson |
| Plan your life at new year's; your day at dawn. |
| Open your umbrella before you get wet. |
| You can't sip soup with a knife. |
| Spare me your sorrow's tears. |
| A woman's mind: like spring weather. |
| Bean-paste that smells like bean-paste is no good. |
| Maidens and fish don't keep. |
| He is as good as he is wicked. |
| Evil comes full circle home to us. |
| The neighbor's blossoms: pinker. |
| No one sits still when the next house burns. |
| The first star is nameless. |
| Kindness: not for others but for ourselves. |
| Once uttered words run faster than horses. |
| The go-player doesn't get to his mother's death-bed on time. |
| He is building a bridge over the ocean. |
| He is one inch good, one foot evil. |
| A single post can't hold up a sagging house. |
| The child never changes: sometimes for a hundred years. |
| If you make yourself a dog, make yourself a rich man's dog. |
| Lucky: like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. |
| You can't quarrel without another quarreler. |
| In wealth, many friends: in poverty, not even relatives. |
| Don't go down in another's fall. |
| The half-drunk man exposes his whole nature. |
| He bends his seven-hinged knee in eight places. |
| First we drink the wine. Then the wine drinks the wine. Then the wine drinks us. |
| The stone Buddha will sometimes speak. |
| Dog: throwing dirt with your hind legs. |
| Heaven cannot use two suns or a house two masters. |
| principle comes before parents. |
| Sickness comes in at the mouth: and evil goes out there. |
| Even the prettiest shoe makes a sorry hat. |
| Big trees provoke the pride of winds. |
| One madman makes a hundred sane men flee. |
| It's only one hair pulled from nine cows. |
| You can't straighten a snake passing it through a bamboo tube. |
| When his mouth stops shouting his hand starts striking. |
| How can you beat a dog that licks your hand? |
| He is dressed in rags but his heart is real brocade. |
| Invalids live the longest. |
| The beggar's work: pure profit. |
| To give ground is sometimes the best victory. |
| The defeated ones become the rebels. |
| Don't take a gilded sword to cut a radish. |
| Cool as the toad who snapped a mosquito. |
| You can see another's arse but not your own. |
| Others are others; I am I. |
| No medicine cures stupidity. |
| Even a cup of tea helps hunger for a bit. |
| Don't try to wash out blood with blood. |
| No lord can rule without sometimes playing deaf and blind. |
| Don't judge the tree 'til you see the fruit. |
| You overhear so much, corns will grow on your ears. |
| You can know ten things by learning one. |
| No word can cut kindness. |
| He doesn't even know the potatoes have been boiled. |
| It takes ordinary men to set off great ones. |
| Don't ask a blind man to show the way. |
| We are like blind men peeping through a fence. |
| The foot-clog and the Buddha: both made of wood. |
| The clearest mirror cannot show the back. |
| Don't get shipwrecked as you enter port. |
| Don't watch a bonfire in a straw coat. |
| The naked man never mislays his wallet. |
| Wisdom is one treasure no robber can touch. |
| Better cover the fish than chase the cat. |
| Even the welcome guest is a nuisance after three days. |
| Let wisdom and virtue be the two wheels of your cart. |
| He judges by what he hears, not by what he sees. |
| Don't set a cat to guard the milk. |
| Two wet love-birds under one umbrella. |
| Painters and lawyers can soon change white to black. |
| Don't seek afar to find a wife. |
| Great difference betwixt men and women: but they get mighty close. |
| A crying child and a lord's agent get their way. |
| Love blinds us to our sweetheart's faults. |
| He and she are so close not even water would seep between them. |
| Your karma and your shadow are always there. |
| Better the wife of a divorced man than the wife of a widower. |
| The fool's wisdom comes after he is hurt. |
| Willow branches never snap under the weight of snow. |
| Great villainy is often called loyalty. |
| mewing cats catch no rats. |
| Drums speak according as you strike. |
| Don't fear a great enemy or despise a small. |
| Spilled water never returns to the cup. |
| A quick promiser, a quick forgetter. |
| You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. |
| A bridegroom from the castle, a bride from the cottage make a good match. |
| Don't laugh so hard -- you'll dislocate your jaw. |
| Even the rooftop crow is touched by love. |
| Who does not think far ahead will have troubles near at hand. |
| Near neighbors: better than distant cousins. |
| Only a monkey tries to catch the full moon in the pond. |
| The couple's quarrel and the west wind die down at dark. |
| No branch is better than its trunk. |
| Water far off puts out no fire at home. |
| Sparrows know not the dreams of swans. |
| He is spoiled: he peels his dumplings. |
| To live long, keep a cool head, warm feet. |
| Precautions must be taken first. |
| Don't be so greedy you break your nails. |
| Avarice big enough is called ambition. |
| The fortune-teller never knows his own. |
| There are old men of three; children of a hundred. |
| A bad wife is poor harvest after sixty years of husbandry. |
| Don't lug dirt to a hilltop. |
| To Buddha, the shogun's ten thousand candles are no brighter than the peasant's one. |
| We do well what we like well. |
| The poor pilgrim laughs at highwaymen. |
| When the oil is gone the lamp goes out. |
| Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. |
| Below the hull is hell. |
| A thousand days in the afterworld: better one day in this. |
| It is a jeweled cup without a bottom. |
| Lovers' quarrels re-dye love's colors. |
| Late drinking and late rising: short cuts to poverty. |
| Old men for wisdom; young men for war. |
| Happier the eve than the holiday itself. |
| Don't paint on water or carve on ice. |
| Rich man's appetite: never satisfied. |
| A slip of the tongue cuts deeper than the sword. |
| Go away and you are soon forgotten. |
| Ill-won money never sticks. |
| Unpolished gems don't glitter. |
| Don't kill the gnat and let the hornet go. |
| children are the poor man's wealth. |
| The loud voice often wins the quarrel. |
| Don't call in the doctor after the funeral. |
| It is simpler to die than to live. |
| Useless as a borrowed cat. |
| An elegant woman: eyes and nose on an egg. |
| The nail that raises its head is hammered down. |
| Grandmother's pets make poor providers. |
| Beauty is silent yet it speaks to us. |
| Being born: the beginning of the end. |
| Hidden and silent worms riddle the wood. |
| The world is dark even half an inch ahead. |
| It rained so hard the axle washed away. |
| Love kept covered bursts out somehow. |
| Many pleading voices can melt metal. |
| The beautiful woman can destroy surely as the axe. |
| Pinch yourself to know how it feels to others. |
| You can change your clothes, not your character. |
| An earthen Buddha had better not play with water. |
| Who can tell the he-crow from his mate? |
| The pheasant would not be caught if it didn't cry out. |
| He who mixes dye takes on its color. |
| Don't pay for the fur while the weasel's still holed up. |
| No one can keep one eye in back of his head. |
| Youth can grow old and not grow wise. |
| Don't go to the fishpond without a net. |
| Beautiful women come to learn most grief. |
| He is poor who does not own content. |
| If you love your son make him leave home. |
| Victims of the same disease have much to talk about. |
| Drink poison: you might as well chew up the glass too. |
| The mended lid belongs on the cracked pot. |
| He is wise who knows what is enough. |
| With money even a fool's orders are obeyed. |
| Even Buddha: he gives blessings as we give him coins. |
| No man in the saddle and no horse under it either. |
| Set aside next day's lunch while you're at supper. |
| In time even youth grows old. |
| Blue comes from Indigo, but is bluer than Indigo. |
| Thousands of soldiers, yes: but try to find one general. |
| Homemade bean-paste is hot. |
| Big fish better not swim in shallow bays. |
| Rich men don't die in the gutter. |
| A one-inch worm: perhaps a half-inch soul. |
| He knows many things but not much of any. |
| His hand was bitten by his own dog. |
| Snow on my own umbrella can be borne. |
| Who comes earliest leads the way. |
| Look up: no shame before heaven. Look down: no shame before earth. |
| His best helper is himself. |
| Don't plug your ears when you go to steal a bell. |
| Heaven has no mouth: it must speak through men. |
| The weakling shouldn't flaunt his jewels. |
| Smaller the man, bigger the anger. |
| Poverty is worse than the four hundred diseases. |
| The thousand-mile journey starts with one step. |
| The crow that apes the cormorant gets drowned. |
| Steal money you're a thief: steal a country you're a king. |
| To kill a general first shoot his horse. |
| With two of the same trade, war is made. |
| Even the ant's hope may reach heaven. |
| Some pots have lids that fit; some do not. |
| The stubborn man insists on walking right under the whip. |
| Yesterday's blossoms: only a memory today. |
| The lord is the sea: the subject a fish therein. |
| Harder to feed the people than hold back the flood. |
| The purchase often proves cheaper than the gift. |
| To hear about it sounds like silver coins; to see it: coppers. |
| Keep fences even between friends. |
| A diligent ant undermines the moat. |
| You can catch a tarpon with a shrimp. |
| What is left unsaid is rich as flowers. |
| Our minds are as various as our faces. |
| Tough: as though he were given birth by the crotch of a tree. |
| Over-loving turns to over-hating. |
| Strange dogs don't enter if the gate is really shut. |
| It's not the drugs that kill; it's the doctors. |
| You can work in dirt and lead a clean life. |
| The empty life is filled with tears. |
| You can't polish a tile into precious stone. |
| What we think we have but have not: money. |
| Your tongue's sword can cut short your life. |
| Careful how you handle scissors and fools. |
| Don't fasten the handle to the pail-bottom. |
| If you are in a hurry go round-about. |
| A penny in hand worth a pound in hope. |
| He who knows talks not. He who talks knows not. |
| To understand a parent's love: have a child. |
| Some pray to the gods only when in trouble. |
| The whore's sincerity: a four-cornered egg. |
| Who lives by the river often dies by the river. |
| Though the lord may unbend, the subject should not. |
| The tallest trees: oft leveled by the storm. |
| Adversity is the source of strength. |
| Don't carry carts to the sea or boats to the hills. |
| Lazy people have no spare time. |
| If you carry treasure don't travel at night. |
| Better be ignorant than mistaught. |
| Coffin-makers love the plague. |
| Don't put a cleaver in the clutch of a maniac. |
| Women and small men are hard to handle. |
| Not the lover but his language wins the lady. |
| Better shave your mind than your skull. |
| If you are asleep you can't eat dumplings. |
| Wise men do not blame others; but themselves. |
| The addition is correct, but where is the money? |
| Summer insects seek the flame. |
| He's a great eater: but that's his only skill. |
| Of the thirty-six ways to fight the best is to flee. |
| Eating sweets gives you no strength. |
| You can't judge widows or horses without handling them. |
| A pretty girl and a bag of coins take watching. |
| If you believe everything you read better not read. |
| He is too tough to be either boiled or broiled. |
| The biggest fish always breaks the line. |
| If you eat only three-quarters full you won't need a doctor. |
| Better plant the paddy than write poems. |
| In a quarrel both sides should be punished. |
| Impotent as a dry sardine gnashing its teeth. |
| The dead tiger leaves his pelt: man his reputation. |
| She looks so gentle she wouldn't kill a gnat. |
| In the mountains we forget to count the days. |
| Wine tells the truth. |
| Don't use the ox-cleaver to kill a hen. |
| If you fall in the street look out for dung. |
| Don't make a pin into a pickaxe. |
| Wherever we go we can find green hills. |
| He's a pumpkin plus eyes and nose. |
| Don't attack a tiger with a company of sheep. |
| You start digging the well when you are thirsty. |
| Have three daughters: one way to stay poor. |
| Old men are children twice. |
| The defeated general should not talk of war. |
| Don't carry water in a wicker basket. |
| The kind man loves mountains. The clever man loves rivers. |
| Wine is the king of medicines. |
| Two hearts: and only one body. |
| We are no more than candles burning in the wind. |
| The priest is someone inside the robe. |
| Better a live beggar than a dead millionaire. |
| Run after two hares and catch none. |
| You don't have to teach the sea-serpent to swim. |
| When the belly is full the eyelids close. |
| You can't dig clams in a garden. |
| When you grow old obey your children. |
| Better the beak of the hen than the tail of the horse. |
| Human life: impermanent as the morning dew. |
| A big rock has to be chipped away. |
| In choosing a wife look first at her mother. |
| Bread is better than blossoms. |
| When you say chisel you also mean mallet. |
| One dog barks at nothing: all the dogs bark with him. |
| Borrow from him, he has an angel's face: repay him, a devil's. |
| This fellow is singing on his way to the gallows. |
| The old forget; the young don't know. |
| The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. |
| Wine is lunatic water. |
| An expert calligrapher knows his best brush. |
| You can't snatch the cub unless you go into the tiger's den. |
| It's a bad household where the hen announces dawn. |
| Old people tell old tales. |
| Neither burn incense nor break wind. |
| Good medicine has often a bitter smack. |
| Repentance never comes first. |
| He is a stork among us chickens. |
| When the dragon fights the tiger both get hurt. |
| Who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree. |
| Money even buys men out of hell. |
| Dyers always wear plain white clothes. |
| Money is fruit of the perseverance tree. |
| Don't carry a lantern in moonlight. |
| Sweet words: diseases. Hard words: medicines. |
| May you live to be a hundred: may I live to be ninety-nine. |
| Frogs in a well shouldn't speak of the sea. |
| Don't lend your axe to get your own trees felled. |
| First among blossoms the cherry: among men the warrior. |
| Lepers envy syphilitics. |
| Victorious a king defeated a traitor. |
| Fallen flowers can't climb back. |
| Better the arrow pierce your breast than your back. |
| Lean on a post not on people. |
| As natural as water on the frog's face. |
| To teach is also to learn. |
| There is no poverty among beggars. |
| You don't have to die: heaven and hell are in this world too. |
| A good wife: the family treasure. |
| Three women: a noisy crowd. |
| Thieves in every city; rats in every house. |
| You can't wrap up the wind or tie down the shadow. |
| Ice never gets on well with burning charcoal. |
| Don't wrestle with a curtain. |
| Look at the devil praying at the shrine. |
| If a fancy lasts three years: call it love. |
| Honey in his mouth; hate in his heart. |
| The richer the country the softer its army. |
| Every extra thing you own is extra trouble. |
| We can stand severest pain three years when someone else is suffering. |
| A good horse needs only the shadow of the whip. |
| No one ever stumbled lying snug in bed. |
| A barking dog is no hunter. |
| A peasant girl can some day ride a golden palanquin. |
| You cannot live in the same world with your father's murderer. |
| Saying `no,' the maiden shakes her head up and down. |
| An old wife and an old pot are the best around the house. |
| The flame brightens when about to fail. |
| A fool at forty; a fool forever. |
| Too long for a belt; too short for a sash. |
| No man lasts more than a lifetime: his fame may last forever. |
| Pick your wife in the kitchen. |
| You might as well go fishing in the trees. |
| The bee thinks to sting the ox's horn. |
| Quick as a centipede with straw sandals on each foot. |
| We can see seven faults in another: not one of our own ten. |
| Eggplants don't grow on melon vines. |
| Even a starving hawk won't lower himself to eat corn. |
| Get out of the forest while you still have daylight. |
| Old friends and new clothes: better than new friends, old clothes. |
| If he works for you, you work for him. |
| A crooked branch casts a crooked shadow. |
| One falling leaf foretells death of a whole year. |
| Gold is brighter even than Buddha's heaven. |
| Flowers seem to bloom better for widows. |
| Even when he falls he doesn't get up empty-handed. |
| Don't scratch your shoe when your foot itches. |
| Don't test every stone bridge with your stick. |
| The life of luxury is a short one. |
| Don't settle the quarrel listening to one side only. |
| Keep your mouth shut, your eyes open. |
| He fell seven times and got up eight. |
| The opposite side has its opposite side. |
| Old horses don't forget the road. |
| Look at a woman at night, from afar, or under an umbrella. |
| Sooner or later you act out what you really think. |
| Don't try to graft the bamboo onto the pine. |
| No illusion; no enlightenment. |
| Don't waste your prayers in the horse's ear. |
| Even with devils we prefer the ones we're used to. |
| Foster parents: more generous even than your own. |
| You can't ladle out the sea with a shell. |
| Always condemn the crime, not always the criminal. |
| Some ride in palanquins, some bear palanquins: some weave sandals for palanquin-bearers. |
| Disease and death recognize no face. |
| See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil. |
| Store your past, present, and future in Casio's digital brain. |
| Database has 0 items. Last update was May 12 1989. |
| The industrial revolution in the netherlands began with wind. - Dutch miller |
| What does C give you, aside from not being Pascal? --sun!hoptoad!tim |
| Every institution I've ever been associated with has tried to screw me. - Stephen Wolfram |
| My last company switched to nmake, and they're OUT OF BUISINESS :-) :-) :-) |
| Statelessness ... is a means to an end, and should not be an end in itself. -Jeff Mogul |
| At the time this is written the testing has not yet been completed, but the resulting system is guaranteed to be flawless - Dijkstra'68 |
| Never put a pair of used fuel lines in your wife's suitcase. |
| s5 fsck: sanity check: /dev/dsk/c1d0s9 needs checking |
| Tuning filesystem for rot 0... |
| Hello, this is the Authorization Service for Area/Exch/Host. |
| You are now authorized as norman on Area/Exch/Host. |
| "/tmp/sys.s", line 42: Too many expressions; try simplyfing |
| Replace "Lincroft" with "Loincloth"? |
| /n/barney/pkg2/umips-v/mips53.4.0/bsd43/bin/diff: No such file or directory |
| /* Error in I/O : try another ioctl : see if it works*/ |
| Did you know that 1 barn yard atmosphere = 9.2e-17 erg? |
| Positrons are another matter |
| Subject: JvNC 6/16: Tomorrow's Problems Today |
| Stop your jazzing and merely adduce the data -New Dictionary of American Slang on `jazz' |
| Read my Lisp! No Gnu Faxes! |
| If you remember the '60s, you weren't there. -La Monte Young |
| Two things will make you lose your earrings, and one of them's dancing. -Bonnie Raitt. |
| It's the greatest news we have had since the 23rd of March. |
| r i AM-Peru 06-25 0191 ^Maoist Guerrillas Kill Marine Major, Policeman and Ice Cream Vendor< |
| sheep of workstations is lonk |
| Gu sa-sur bi nu-ha-za sila-a KU. -- Sumerian saying |
| An ox with diarrhea leaves a long trail of dung. -- Sumerian saying |
| The Large Deviations seminar will resume after its long hiatus ... |
| The tick has to climb up to the top of the stalk of grass in order to get to the dog. |
| He who runs from the stinging ants may stumble upon angry hornets. |
| A blow from the frying pan, if it doesn't hurt, blackens. |
| He who kisses the lungfish gets chewed lips. |
| A cow must graze where she is tied, or chew the rope off. |
| When the humans are away, the monkeys enter the hut, eat up the maize, and rearrange the furniture. |
| Money is like an eel in the hand: slippery and wiggly, but ever-so-tasty. |
| If you climb up a tree you must climb down the same tree, unless you are a flying squirrel. |
| When a wiseguy says, "Pull my finger," don't do it. |
| Do not scald your lips trying to eat the donut chunk floating in the coffee. |
| To be a performance artist in one lifetime means seven rebirths as a stereo salesclerk. |
| Never annoy a howler monkey, no matter how tempting. |
| Always lick the suction cup before you shoot the dart gun at the TV set. |
| A big fish is caught with tiny marshmallows. |
| Shouting proverbs from the slime pit may lead to unpleasant gargling. |
| If a centipede loses one leg, he can still walk; if he loses a hundred legs, he can still squirm. |
| Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces. -R. Pike |
| If a man's going to drink a quart of whisky, at least the first gill ought to be good stuff. -Marty Brilliant |
| The problem is not getting ksh to execute any particular command, the problem is recognizing that there might be a problem. |
| 16516:Eduardo: cannot execute |
| ``MS-DOS has nothing but installed base.'' |
| American Bar Association (0xABA) + Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (0xCBC) == the American Revolution (0x1776) |
| Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail. |
| The Morris defense: The dog ran my homework. |
| There is no problem so small that it can't be blamed on Datakit -- A. Hume |
| "misc.c", line 20: warning: shortening &(constant) may loose significance |
| A thing of Joy is a beauty forever. -Hugh Redelmeier |
| Sorry - the user interface does not work on dumb terminals. You are being put into the command mode! |
| Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. -Rob Pike |
| C++ names are systematically silly. -Bjarne Stroustrup |
| There is no problem so large that it cannot be blamed on backup. |
| diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. |
| If you miskey a symbol, it will be treated as text, unless it is mistaken for another symbol. -some IBM manual. |
| Other minor bugs also fixed, or at least stirred around. -bwk on troff |
| For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision. |
| dist.c:5 astro.h:4 macro redefined: OCCULT |
| What's wrong with a two-hundred pound hat? - Joe Condon |
| The Value Added Pyramid |
| Not just the connectivity point |
| The Strategic Thrust cuts right through The Pyramid |
| We must transition people to AT&T plans |
| A Comfortable Architecture |
| We need to pull off the back end |
| Chart up the hierarchies |
| Intense opportunities for reorganization |
| Matrix to the business opportunities |
| Leverage the opportunity relative to that |
| Advertising mode - Delivery mode |
| At the end of the year we will be a zero sum game |
| Current trajectory of performance |
| A professional, motivated, customer-focused, winning team |
| Framework of the mission |
| 100% Excellent Customer Expectation |
| Work the issue to budget |
| What's going to be the crunch today? |
| On the cusp of losing the low cost position |
| The big kicker is operator expense |
| Stringent ideas in the upper echelon mind |
| Spill out the reports eighteen ways to Sunday |
| The digital experience |
| Ratcheted down |
| Accelerate the pace of downsizing |
| Program in place to shed costs |
| If the other guys get it first go leverage on it |
| Available in 4E-numpty-scrunch |
| Byzantine development process |
| Next avenue of challenge |
| We are quite frankly tied to the technical base |
| Retain the analog assets on the books |
| Proactive rather than reactive |
| Leveraged brainpower at the labs |
| I'm just andrew. -andrew |
| Copyright (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| Type C-h for help; C-x u to undo changes. (`C-' means use CTRL key.) |
| GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details. |
| You may give out copies of Emacs; type C-h C-c to see the conditions. |
| Type C-h t for a tutorial on using Emacs. |
| goto more; /* we have done one goto; do some more */ (scj) |
| Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire. |
| 11204511521426545167 c.out |
| So be a pal and punget a file today. |
| We want to avoid the appearance that AT&T is in total control. -- R. Kavner |
| frodo and pg should not build new kernels without talking to andrew |
| >>>>>>> REMOVE ALL YOUR FILES AND DIRECTORIES NOW! <<<<<<< |
| Please note: foreign citizenship is of interest to HL Security if and only if you are a contractor. |
| "temp.c":8394:compiler error: whiles, fors. etc. too deeply nested |
| WARNING: clock gained 113 days |
| The system is coming up. Please wait. |
| Multics is a powerful teaching tool. -Ken Thompson |
| d202: your output may be weird |
| tar: /n/bhtsa/a/ps/src/gen////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////09: cannot open file |
| TeX is the only program that constantly expresses its opinion on its input. |
| Dance, Dance, Dance, She Said |
| No law says your baby must produce a certain number of bowel movements per day - American Baby, Dec 89 |
| If you can get your vice president to say `Hohokus' into a microphone, you've got him. -Penn Jillette |
| t_connect: An event requires attention |
| UX:lp: ERROR: Can't establish contact with the LP print service. |
| A courteous climber does not drop things, including himself, on fellow climbers. |
| Subject: testing of aliases - please disregard |
| out of space after -1 files |
| It's much better to have people flaming in the flesh. -Al Aho |
| I'm a mere hundred pages of code from serving Datakit. -Ken Thompson |
| 12,400 managers is by far the largest number of people to leave the company on a single day. |
| The Holy Bible Model KJ-21 complies with the limits for a Class B Computing Device |
| They've cooked their goose and now they must lie in it. -- Joh Petersen |
| sum to check equivalent files should use sum -a. - Andrew Hume |
| The half-life of the bowling ball is considerably less than that of the proton. -dmr |
| #define ISMPXHOST(hostid) ((*(short *)(*((char **)(*((char **)(Sys[-64])+(hostid))+44))+72))&0x10) |
| dd.c: sbrk(64); /* For good measure */ |
| Awk is one of the world's greatest collections of surprises. -Doug McIlroy |
| You're only young once, but you can always be immature. |
| The implementation shall behave as if no library function calls the rand function. |
| Your fantasy will come true. |
| Mail version 5.2 6/21/85. Type ? for help. |
| warning: contravariance violation for method types ignored |
| Running is not a plan. Running is what you do when the plan fails. |
| X is a large contribution. -Hugh Redelmeier |
| If it's green or wiggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. |
| The purpose of est is to help you get along with other est students. |
| /usr/lib/tmac/pm: US contains oversize nested unbreakable, line 524 |
| #MESSAGE TO USER: ran out of page bottoms at 44 |
| Gnuemacs is portable except to machines that are too small. -Richard M. Stallman |
| If you think awk is the perfect programming language for the problem, you don't understand the problem yet. -Rob Pike |
| What C++ does for you automatically is very hard to watch out for. -Ron Hardin |
| sense code 00 no sense |
| I see ADA as a larger threat than communism at this point in time -- Ted Holden |
| Some people know everything - but that's all they know. |
| Castration is not a cure-all. |
| Multi-place measurements are for sissies. -Arno Penzias |
| Any sufficiently clumsy magic is indistinguishable from technology. |
| Congress is not the sole suppository of wisdom. -Rep. Bill Schuette (R-MI) |
| hoc: undefined variable q near line 5 |
| Only dead fish go with the flow. |
| Never work more than thirty feet from your bed. - Ruth Bernhard |
| Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet. -Karl Kleinpaste |
| ``Workers of the World, forgive us!'' (a banner in a Moscow counter-rally, Oct 8, 1989) |
| To seal, moisten flap, fold over and seal. |
| The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. -Kernighan, 1978 |
| Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -Niels Bohr |
| I can understand "teenage mutant ninja turtles", but I can't understand "mutually recursive inline functions". |
| mk: sed 's%^% %' ... : exit status=|die: yankee dog |
| History doesn't repeat itself - but it rhymes. -Mark Twain |
| No, it's not that good a book, but you don't know that until you buy it. -Gerard Holzmann |
| A Trojan Horse is only dangerous if it's leaking. |
| Let's have Unix become the next Nintendo. - Larry Dooling |
| Love make, not more |
| Sybil gasped. There on N'Boto's palm was tattooed a perfect street map of Dundee... |
| Gerard insisted on flaunting his revolutionary thermal snood. |
| The first step is to determine what the remaining steps are. -Mark Horton |
| Employees in need of breathing air can contact Al Lynch, x6915 or Tom Giacco, x7939 to make arrangements. |
| A director is a man who presides over accidents. -Orson Welles |
| What is film after all but life with the dull bits cut out? -Alfred Hitchcock |
| I hate musicologists. They are like maggots on dead meat. - C. P. Killian |
| TSO keeps everyone happy (TSO macht alle froh) |
| It's only words ... unless they're true. -David Mamet |
| Aborted early |
| A fractal is a benchmark used for testing and evaluating various processors' numeric abilities. |
| People who live in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black. |
| Knowledge does not keep any better than fish - A N Whitehead |
| Every man has a right to be valued by his best moment. -Emerson |
| Reality is a cheap hack. -Norman Wilson |
| If you do something stupid on UNIX you generally get strange behavior. -Doug Gwyn |
| So I think there may be some good information here. -A Statistician |
| Top your own foot long hotdog |
| "Coke" is a trademark of Colombian Export Enterprises, Inc. |
| NFS implementations are a continual source of surprises. -Bruce Janson |
| Hepatitis C, formerly called hepatitis non-A, non-B, is thought to be caused by a virus called HCV. |
| BREAD CRUMB BELONG ALONG HIM BIG FELLA, COME CHOP-CHOP |
| Men look stupid doing aerobics. |
| English is a 5-tuple ... -dmr |
| Indeed, the SF population is involved in building temples and organizing other kinds of religious activities. -Mark V. Shaney |
| No wonder Indians all leave... Being stuck with that food forever. - Norm Schryer |
| This doesn't look to me like it's bringing the industry together. -pjw, at an OSF press conference. |
| I'd still like you to explain that worm to me - Judge Munson to Robert T. Morris |
| A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA! |
| What's Spaf gonna do if Purdue hires RTM? |
| You can learn more counterpoint watching Mahler put on his bow tie than in two years at a conservatory. -Schoenberg |
| If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they put them all there? |
| Good news: that gum you like is going to come back into style. |
| The backbone of Science is the demo. |
| ERROR:No man in the saddle an no horse under it either. |
| By the time I leave office I want every single American to be able to set the clock on his VCR. -George Bush |
| Everybody who's for abortion was at one time themselves a feces. -Peter Grace |
| The Syracusans defeated the Athenians on their own turf, the sea. |
| Like raisins in a bread pudding, the moments lie within the body of Henry. |
| As a domestic animal, Othello is a child. |
| Morality is ubiquitous in everything that is good or bad. |
| Why should someone be penalized because he has studied diligently and deciduously in high school. |
| In the upcoming times of cutbacks, the defense industry can turn to making stimulation devices. |
| Today, the world is teetering on the brink of nuclear Agamemnon. |
| But when the chips are down, women hold the reins. |
| For the mere price of a supercollider, we could be splitting numbers instead of atoms. -Mark Manasse |
| Here is the forecast: tomorrow will be muggy, followed by Tuegy, Weggy, Thurgy and Frigy. |
| You'll look better in a miter washed in Woolite. |
| Quayle thinks that Roe v. Wade are options for crossing the Potomac. -Julian Bond |
| If we complicate things they get less simple. |
| Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! |
| A real gentleman never takes bases unless he really has to. |
| The whole point of mathematics is to solve differential equations! |
| Trying to solve differential equations is a youthful aberration that you will soon grow out of. |
| Nature abhors second order differential equations. |
| I just want you to have a brief boggle at the belly-busting complexity of evaluating this. |
| ...and you find you get masses of energy. -from a Relativity lecture |
| This must be wrong by a factor that oughtn't to be too different from unity. |
| It is the complex case that is easier to deal with. |
| ...the non-uniqueness is exponentially small. |
| If it doesn't happen at a corner, but at an edge, it nonetheless happens at a corner. |
| This does have physical applications. In fact it's all tied up with strings. |
| We're not doing mathematics; this is statistics. |
| You mustn't be too rigid when doing Fluid mechanics. |
| There are two proteins involved in DNA synthesis, they are called DNAsynthase 1 and DNAsynthase 3. |
| Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean that they are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you see what I mean. |
| Apart from the extra line that's a one line proof. |
| This is a one line proof...if we start sufficiently far to the left. |
| "This is the maximum power triangle." said a lecturer, pointing to a rectangle. |
| The attempt to fully simplify an expression will often fail to nonterminate. |
| Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. - Malcolm Forbes |
| You've gotta put a void THERE? |
| Dijkstra is known for GOTOs, I'm known for whales... -S.C. Johnson |
| Does "Xmas" celebrate the birth of Malcolm X? |
| Attention, Eduardo, the moon is red. |
| The barracuda sleeps at sundown. |
| The shark leaves a golden trail. |
| Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -Robert Benchley |
| aug 28 10:00 mh 1d-224 h yasuoka, issp, nmr and nqr in high tdcu and related cu oxides - u63dcu and u17do nmr in ybad2ucud3uodyu |
| "p1_isup.c":756:compiler error: out of temporary trees |
| According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy. |
| Sizing and clearing 64 Mbytes of memory! Initialize local hardware! |
| In the sentence `The logical operators are OR and AND and XOR,' there should be spaces between OR and and and and and AND and AND and and and and and XOR. |
| Keyboard not present, press any key. |
| Why doesn't FSF pick on someone their own size? |
| Apres moi, le kludge. -James H Fischer |
| Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. - Dan Quayle |
| Forgive your enemies, but remember their names. -- John F. Kennedy |
| cpu: can't dial helix.cpu: ken hasn't implemented datakit |
| Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise head! |
| Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he! |
| Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde |
| parser/decl++.c:1700: warning: empty input file |
| NEVER name an array after a bessel function! |
| Everyone please save /usr/news/102.sup |
| Buy DOS, get Unix free! |
| The only things certain in life are X and taxes. - Bart Locanthi |
| If at first you don't succeed, have a beer. |
| If you were plowing a field what would you rather use, 2 strong oxen or 1024 chickens? -Seymour Cray |
| X-Andrew-Authenticated-As: 0;imposter.samsung.com;Mr. System |
| You know when you have a dream that includes Mark Horton that it is time to give up sleeping. |
| American Non Sequitur Society: We don't make sense, but we do like pizza. |
| I can't work out who i'm supposed to be hiding my information from in any case. - Bruce Ellis |
| The FSF is not overly concerned about security. - FSF |
| English is a stationary halibut? |
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my breakfast cereal. |
| Intoxication, whether Dionysian or Apollonian, of an aggregate is the second-biggest disappointment in a fight with a hammer. |
| Happiness is just gymnastics--and I hate programs that read standard output. -Boyd |
| Oh! It's one of those programs that reads standard output. - boyd |
| A sharp tongue is the business of the grapes. |
| For every action there is an awesome engine of contagion. |
| A big rock has to be a nut about success. |
| Money will say more in one moment than the wife of a sick goldfish. |
| Electronic music has clearly come to he who drinks. |
| One bad apple can ruin a snake. |
| SCCS: the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it rhymes. -Mark Twain |
| Make: Don't know how your program works |
| inews: Article rejected: mvs included more text than new friends, old clothes. |
| Keep flammables away from hurricanes for a secret mission. |
| Gcc is mainly a CPU integer-intensive benchmark written in C. |
| We had no idea how the Patriot would stand up to the Scud, and now we're proving it. |
| Bush has it backwards -- abortion is surgical; bombing is murder. -Brian Harvey |
| It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. -Freeman Dyson |
| Friends are classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. (in C++) |
| Geez, you'd think standards were a continental disease or something. - Brian Reid |
| Ansitise, v.: to pollute code; converse of sanitise. |
| Posixiate, v.: to kill code or render it unconscious. See asphyxiate. |
| Svindle, v.: to rob someone of code, remove functionality. |
| ISO-late, v.: to delay production of code, to slow down code. |
| OSIfy, v.: To make code impenetrable. |
| warning: fioread.c:17 set and not used: goal |
| I try not to run down MTS's in public. -P.J. Weinberger |
| "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards -- Rob Pike |
| Usage: "netq [-[a][b][c][e][f][h][i][k][l][m][n][p][q][r][s][t][v][w][x][y]] [-A <handler>] [-C[<seconds>]] [-D <destination>] [-L <use-link>] [-P <priority>] [-R <stop reason>] [-S <source>] [-T[<level>]] [-U <user>] [<address> ...]" |
| ill black hole address |
| The two core competencies of AT&T are crisis management and viewgraphs. -- Dan Stanzione |
| Each time we take a Newton step, we hit the snare drum. -Eric Grosse |
| Increase your product value with autographs |
| 11/28: Macrocode caused entire 5990 complex to crash 17:15 - 18:14. |
| Blessed are the peacocks, for they shall be called sonship of God. -Matt. 5:9 as rendered by QuickVerse 2.0 |
| server bootes available on 19.5 |
| Ask Ken. He hates Everything. |
| Rule 3: If the character is comprised of a container without another radical, then Rule 3 will not apply. |
| You don't want to be alone when you're learning C++. |
| There are two rules for success in life. Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know. |
| "parser/lex.c":2609:redeclaration of undefine from some line -2555 |
| BASH is great, it dumps core and has clear documentation. -Ari Suntioinen |
| Efficiency is doing things right, but effectiveness is doing the right thing. |
| To keep this fortune fresh, ECC has been added to the file system. |
| This fortune displayed on 100% recycled pixels. |
| The lucky chair was last auctioned in 1924 in Denmark when its previous owner also went bankrupt. |
| Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -Donald Knuth |
| att-xx # Apr 30 16:31:11 timed[119]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE |
| I can't go to the mall; I have to write a sonnet. -- Rebecca Bregman |
| An economic reality of our time: computerized job deskilling. - a book review in Science |
| The true ideologist does not let mere facticity impinge on his perfect understanding of the universe. |
| one with nintendo/halcyon symbiosis/hand thinks for itself |
| cold matsushita/their technology stronger/enslaves our people |
| midori ito/girl finds glory, is broken/they can rebuild her |
| honda seatcovers/winter warm and summer cool/little lambs no more |
| the sand remembers/once there was beach and sunshine/but chip is warm too |
| oh no godzilla/guns and planes cannot stop him/tokyo is ablaze |
| samurai fighter/keyboard and mouse are his sword/digital battles |
| DAT arrives/frequency notch treachery/people are not fooled |
| young Sony worker/innocent hands build Walkman/tears run down faces |
| /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat: Read-only file system |
| Credo Elvem ipsum etiam vivere. |
| Estne ebriamen de furfure avenaceo factum? |
| Hostes aliengeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? |
| Of course he [Jim Morrison] is dead and that is a high price to pay for immortality. -Gloria Estefan |
| There's no such thing as a simple cache bug. - Rob Pike |
| HELP! MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS STUCK DOWN, AND I CAN'T GET IT UP! |
| The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. -Alan Kay |
| The tree of liberty must be fed from time to time with the blood of patriots and of tyrants, for it is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson |
| Unix broke upon the world as a refreshing breeze. -Doug McIlroy |
| The specific heat of a solid slag is the weighted average of the specific heat of the constituent oxides. Westyn's Rule |
| Two organic acids which are precipitated by the same base must have like configurations. Winther's Rule |
| In an electrolyte, the product of the equivalent conductivity at infinite dilution and of the viscosity of the solvent is a constant. Walden's Rule |
| The least solvated compound is most stable at high temperatures. Van't Hoff's Rule |
| Higher temperature favors higher enthalpy; Higher pressure favors smaller volume. Van't Hoff's Rules |
| The isomer with the higher dipole moment has the higher physical constants, regardless of the heat content. Van Arkel Rule |
| $S sub m$ < 6.7 J/molK implies anomaly. Tiwari's Rule |
| The erosion rate of a metal depends upon the melting point. Smeltzer's Rule |
| If a slide is not readable when held at arm's length, it will not be readable when projected from the back of a conference hall. Slide Rule |
| Impurities to the left of the host in the periodic table trap hydrogen; those to the right do not. Shirley-Hall Rule |
| Phase boundaries, when produced, must extend into fields with a higher number of phases. Shreinemakers's Rule |
| High K/G implies ductility; low K/G implies brittleness. Pugh's Rule |
| A reagent will approach a ketone carbonyl group from the side with the smaller attached group. Prelog Rule |
| In the anomalous Zeeman effect, lines of the same series exhibit the same pattern. Preston's Rule |
| Oxide/metal volume ratios which are very different to unity imply poor oxidation resistance. Pilling-Bedworth Rule |
| In diamagnetic organic compounds, the molar magnetic susceptibility is an additive property. Pascal's Rule |
| Like functional groups in like surroundings make like contributions to the optical rotation. |
| The boiling point of an organic isomer is proportional to the density of the liquid at the boiling point. Montgomery's Rule |
| Other factors being equal, the metal which is most susceptible to failure is that with the lowest boiling point. Mogro-Campero Rule |
| The fugacity of a constituent in a mixture of gases at a given temperature is proportional to its mole fraction. Lewis-Randall Rule |
| In dipole radiation, only transitions between terms of opposite parity are allowed. Laporte's Rule |
| Equal differences in the chemical composition of organic compounds give equal changes in boiling point. Kopp's Rule |
| Avoid point loads. Areal loading is best, followed by line loading. Katz Rule |
| Avoid stress concentrators. Maintain structural compliance. Katz Rule |
| Minimize the severity of impact. Katz Rule |
| Keep components as small as possible. Katz Rule |
| Machine components very carefully. Katz Rule |
| Factors which cause a marked decrease in the liquidus slope have a greater relative effect on the solidus slope. Hume-Rothery Rule |
| Electricity travels one foot in a nanosecond. Hopper's Rule |
| Atoms of even atomic number are more abundant in the universe than are atoms of odd atomic number. Harkin's Rule |
| The sum of the g-factors is the same for strong and weak magnetic fields, for a given value of M. g-Permanence Rule (Pauli) |
| The solid particle erosion rate of annealed face-centered cubic metals is inversely related to their hardness. Finnie-Wolak-Kabil Rule |
| Metals mix with insulators if the reaction enthalpy is negative, and not if it is positive. Enthalpy of Mixing Rule |
| One quantum of absorbed radiation activates only one molecule. Einstein Rule |
| The ratio of the temperatures at which the vapor pressures of two similar substances are the same is a constant. Dång Rule |
| Elements with high melting points have low coefficients of thermal expansion. Carnelly's Rule |
| Reactions of Diels-Alder type with cyclopentadiene give cyclanes with a methylene bridge across a cyclohexane ring. Bredt Rule |
| There is a clear relationship between the elastic modulus and the resistance to erosion. Brauer-Kriegel Rule |
| The H atoms in ice lie on lines connecting the O atoms. Ice Rule |
| There is only one H atom between any given pair of O atoms. Ice Rule |
| Each O atom has two H atoms close to it and the unit of the water molecule is preserved. Ice Rule |
| For any type of thing, there are more small things in the world than large things. Benford's Rule |
| Carcinogenicity in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is associated with the presence of a bay region. Bay Rule |
| In order to obtain equations which reproduce a fractal object, tile the object with smaller copies of itself. Barnsley's Rule |
| In dichroic crystals, the faster ray is less absorbed. Babinet Rule |
| To calculate the slope of the best straight line through a set of points, join the first and last points. Bancroft's Rule |
| The rate of a chemical reaction approximately doubles with each 10° rise in temperature. Arrhenius Rule |
| In general, cis compounds have a higher density and higher refractive index than do the trans isomerides. Auwers-Skita Rule |
| The sum of the maximum positive valency exhibited by an element and of its maximum negative valency is 8. Abegg's Rule |
| A substituted biphenyl can be resolved if and only if the sum of the hanging bond lengths is greater than 0.29nm. Adam's Rule |
| You know how when you're a virgin you wanna try everything and do it right? -nls |
| Some time between 1991 and 1992 computers will start to kill human beings in a way that will be noticed. John Cullyer, head of RSRE. |
| NOTE..NO WEATHER WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK, JULY 22 THROUGH THE 26TH. |
| Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx |
| And then there is of course the assumption that the disc is not made of beef and tossed with a hungry dog standing nearby. -Lambert Meertens |
| int three = 128+64, two = 128, one=64; |
| Help Run Uninsured Motorists Off the Road -- Ohio registration renewal form |
| If you can't stand the heat, get a pool. |
| If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven. |
| A bird in the hand is messy. |
| Don't count your chickens, eat them. |
| You can't teach an old dog new math. |
| When in Rome, do Roman numerals in math. |
| When in Rome, do bulls run around town? |
| Too many cooks, so little meals. |
| A fool and his money are my best friends. |
| A penny saved is one cent. |
| Look before you run into a pole. |
| A watched pot never disappears. |
| A rolling stone makes you flat. |
| A rolling stone is a singing rock group. |
| Every cloud has a wet spot. |
| You take a banana, you get a lunar landscape. -J. van Wijk |
| "Buffalo never Oink" -- a South Dakota travel brocure. |
| Ken is very smart but also very opinionated. -- Doug Gwyn |
| Anthony Burgess reports a friend's rendezvous with the ideal mannequin, all legs and no breasts. It was like going to bed with a bicycle. |
| Narcissists receive callers without opening the door. |
| If Bell Labs is a tree, research is a blossom, development is the fruit. |
| You have to be careful not to get locked into Open Systems. |
| It is likely that 2^104 is an ultimate limit on storage space, unless we want to turn New Jersy into a DRAM. -chuck@pierre.mit.edu |
| Any worm measuring bigger than 2 metres is a big worm. - sign in Gippsland Giant Worm Museum |
| Our first 'smoke' test showed that it is possible to hear Bob Marley and The Wailers through three feet of concrete. |
| UX:mail: INFO: No mail. |
| There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep |
| I'm giving the demo so why don't you just shut up? -rob (to ast) |
| /* I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS CRAPY CODE -- presotto */ |
| X Moul - Ovum |
| Testing is for bunglers. Properly designed mechanisms work properly. -E.E. Smith (Skylark 3) |
| The Democrats just stand for `I want to be a Republican,' and the Republicans stand for raw evil. -Frank Zappa |
| lp on plan 9 is fixed. -pg |
| no more than 1 lp fortune per day -- rob |
| The overhead involved in using a computer system is high enough that few people routinely use more than one. -Mike Lesk, 1980 |
| I think we should tread very carefully on governments that are constitutionally elected. - George Bush |
| This is my prediction for the future: whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no-one will be safe from it. -JBS Haldane |
| I have lived in a few cities: Nairobi, Edinburgh, Bradford, London, Sydney, New York. Washington is much nicer than Nairobi. - Piers Lauder |
| Real software has its own 800 support line. Stu Feldman |
| Communism must be like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce |
| HONK IF YOU'RE ENTHUSIASTIC |
| Don't the days seem lank and long when doughnuts don't come in. |
| Eadum sunt, quorum unum potest substitui alteri salva veritate. -Leibniz |
| It's like sticking your hands in someone else's pants: it just doesn't feel right. NP Nelson |
| Military intelligence can be a contradiction in terms. |
| Recoilless rifles - aren't. |
| A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down. |
| The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack. |
| If the enemy is within range, then so are you. |
| Professionals are predictable, but the world is full of dangerous amateurs. |
| Killing for peace is like whoring for virginity. |
| Marine math: 2 beers times 39 Marines is 49 cases. |
| Body Count Math: 2 VC plus 1 chicken and 3 pigs equals 37 enemy killed in action. |
| Low expectations are the key to happiness. - Pamela Zave |
| Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -Calvin |
| 20 octets is 160 guys playing flutes -- rob |
| chan[2]='m'; /* Ooh, careful! */ |
| Many system design flaws can be traced to unwarrantedly anthropomorphizing the user. |
| The common theme to all three of the A320 crashes is lack of altitude. -Aviation expert. |
| Clear your screen after you log off. |
| #define struct union /* Great space saver */ |
| Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands. |
| It's the only avant-garde we got. |
| When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat. |
| If you could become more ugly, it would help your career enormously. |
| You have a vast capacity for becoming embarrassed on other people's behalf. |
| You have important hair. |
| We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following the rules of good grooming. |
| I just hate to be pushed around by some @#$%^& machine. - Ken Thompson, on the i960 |
| Easy reading is damned hard writing. - Sheridan |
| After hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity. -Harlan Ellison |
| MOVL R1, |
| How can you write a big system without C++? -Paul Glick |
| So, if you put a G on the front you have to put a zero on the back? -Ken |
| As usual, please try to use a reusable mug. |
| I'd use plan 9 before i'd use bitfields -- pjw |
| Of the physical pages in use, 3436738592 pages are permanently allocated to VMS. |
| February marks the fag end of Bombay's short mild winter spell. |
| Let's share those threats |
| Let's not beat ourselves up for being defensive |
| There's some Jungian principles inside us |
| There are many feedback loops into your system |
| Time to take a stretch-break (possibly self-managed) |
| There'll be massive chaos downstream |
| Feel your own power |
| We're getting lots of dysfunctional acting-out of anxiety |
| We've got to raise this to a double-loop system |
| We've got to keep upping the control until one of us goes nuke! |
| The conflict has to be ritualised in order to get it addressed |
| If you carry on, head-to-head, on `solution' you don't get anywhere |
| That sort of `collusive carrying' just isn't on. |
| Everybody will soon be owning their incompetence |
| They'll be scapegoated because they have a valency for incompetence |
| You gotta pump-prime your seed-corn |
| You need a proactive planning horizon |
| I want you to feel your own power |
| Let's fix a frame on these issues and focus on the power dynamics in the room |
| Infinite retry on parallel printer time-out |
| A system is Unix if and only if it will compile and run everything on prep.ai.mit.edu without restrictions. |
| Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms? It does everything Unix does only less reliably - Ken |
| (hch:) Can't find /you/must/specify/HCDIR/bin/hc@sun41com
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| There are tons of bad AD and DA convertors out there, but they don't make Nyquist wrong. -Marc LoCascio |
| This is like ignoring both the speed limit and the odometer in your car. It won't get you far. -Kenneth P. Birman |
| I didn't really expect to find elephants on the airport runway, and there weren't any. -dmr |
| "Objective" and "subjective" are not entirely subjective. - Penn Jillette |
| The alpha is doing a lot more computation than a lightbulb -- rob |
| It is rarely wise to underestimate the taste of the truly pious. |
| WAIS allows relevance feedback |
| Once you start talking about Nothing, people think you're some sort of idiot. -John Cage |
| Why is there only one Monopoly commission? |
| If something could be done about cache misses, programs would run about twice as fast. -Andrew Appel |
| mount: mount /srv/boot /n/bootes: permission denied |
| Kudos to everyone on the WKSH Team! |
| the application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit, because of sys. |
| BUSINESS UNIT NEWS: |
| o UNIX System Labs launches a torrent of announcements |
| /bin/ls: exec header invalid |
| If you wish to vote "No opinion" on any topic, you must cancel gut.wksh and execute gut instead. |
| Huiswants es. |
| Motto: Compute with fermions, communicate with bosons. -Vincent Heuring |
| The flip side of change is trust. -George Bush |
| We are changing the alignment, not the membership. -John Mayo |
| The President [Bush] is just a guy who sucks in life. - White House aide |
| At MIT the server is the unit of invention. -Rob Pike |
| The dependency dag for a target consists of nodes connected by directed arcs. |
| I was an asshole when you (philw) were still a gleam in your father's eye. -Bob Flandrena |
| Beleidigungen, Beschwerden und Flames bitte an NUL schicken. |
| Fashion, though a goddess, is a fool, and all her worshippers..are nincompoops. E. S. Barrett |
| You advocate a lot of egg sucking but you're not very forthcoming with the eggs. Phil Winterbottom (to ken) |
| My pile of equipment is bigger than your pile of equipment -- philw |
| Mathematics is ... the hot and chaotic work of the devil. Quayle needn't know this. -Vaughan Pratt |
| 51HAren't you glad you don't have to do this anymore? |
| Virtual caches are the worst idea since register windows. - Phil Winterbottom |
| cetus news: Cannot open /usr/news/ |
| ``Ausserordentlich chaotisch, dissonant, und häßlich.'' -review of premiere of Beethoven's 9th |
| Why is the text on my screen turning umop-apisdn? |
| There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. -Ken Olsen, 1977 |
| coproc proto viol |
| Time wounds all heels. |
| Live fast, die young, leave a long publication list. |
| 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 9ss.Z. |
| Maximum number of users exceeded - try again laterConnection closed by foreign host. |
| Connected to 192.65.218.43. |
| When in doubt, twirl. -Ted Shawn |
| ¿Tôø müçh öf á gòód thìng? |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -Frank Zappa |
| Quando la neve si scioglie si vede la merda. |
| I wonder how Plan 9 could be used to monitor shut-ins? -- L. Bernstein |
| Semper ubi sub ubi. |
| Lesson 10 - Who killed Bambi? |
| Is it a lot of blokes with long hair and guitars around their necks? -Keith Richards (on Nirvana) |
| Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. - Samuel Johnson |
| Memory tests terminated by keystroke |
| Rome deserves you. - Tiberius to Caligula. |
| as1: Error: ../bpvvv.c, line 1324: Too many float literals--compile with "-Wb,-nopool" |
| } /* the next line is indented funny to preserve old indentation */ |
| syslog(LOG_WARNING,"/etc/copyright may be too large"); |
| Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect. - David Dinkins |
| It's well we cannot hear the screams/That we create in others' dreams. |
| At twilight, objects often start/To make odd sounds and fall apart. |
| A random thought, if said aloud,/May soon attract a hostile crowd. |
| A timely use of glue or paste/May well prevent a shocking waste. |
| One cannot hope to end one's life/With nothing but a butter knife. |
| The seaweed on the shore cries out/But only it knows what about. |
| It's possible to pick up crumbs/By pressing on them with the thumbs. |
| The one who wants to put on airs/Should not attempt them on the stairs. |
| The person who today is here/May by tomorrow disappear. |
| The helpful thought for which you look/Is written somewhere in a book. |
| A one- or two-inch piece of string/Cannot be used for anything. |
| Upon your person keep a pill/In case you're taken deathly ill. |
| Britain has football hooligans, Germany has neo-Nazis, and France has farmers. -The Times |
| Government Warning: According to the Surgeon General you're going to die. |
| Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est. |
| Please do not urinate in the rain gauge. - sign on Mt. Kilimanjaro |
| Nothing is worth spending a week with bureaucratic Germans. -rob |
| The implementation should provide some reasonable value (80? 255? 509?) rather than something unusable like USHRT_MAX. - ANSI C Rationale |
| Real data are normal in the middle and Cauchy in the tails. |
| accom: Warning 310: restart.c, line 148: A file with no declarations or definitions is accepted as an extension to ANSI C |
| Always go for overkill. -Lou Reed |
| Available only for MEI designed 3.5"MO series. Do not use it absolutely in another drive. |
| Is the tool broadly supported or maintained? |
| You don't need rain in a movie, and you don't need ``paradigm'' in a book. - Penn Jillette |
| Routine work drives out creative work - Arno Penzias |
| If my career depended on dot-dot, I'd be on the dole. - philw |
| >>>'/܇D/' panic: decref
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| 150 years ago everybody was a Christian Scientist. dmr |
| Featuring the Intel 14.4EX with V.42bis and MNP5 |
| Look what David Koresh did, rather than go home and visit HIS parents! - Teller's mother |
| It appears that people would rather have their hands on the wheel and drive off the cliff than be thrown over naked. (scj in Computing Systems) |
| 'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit. - ken |
| Valid license for the following required when not using dbx on kernel. Product OSF-DEV (OSF Developer's Kit): No license found. |
| Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid. |
| I'm pulling *something* here. - Dom Marotta |
| From: No gas will be sold to anyone in a glass container <SKASS@DREW.DREW.EDU> |
| Figure 1b shows how C++'s pure virtual functions turned a black box into a toroidal design |
| (accom): tasks.c, line 7576: accom: Internal: Out of tree space. Cannot continue compilation. The current size was specified as or defaulted to -Wf,-XNh1000 giving a table size of 1000. Recompile giving a command line option to increase the table size. Example option giving a larger table: -Wf,-XNh2000 |
| No UNIX system on the market supports more standards than DEC OSF/1. |
| I despise the little old ladies of both sexes. -Charles Ives |
| What does sound have to do with music? -Charles Ives |
| YOU are welecome to Cheboxary!! |
| I don't need any help, 'cause I'm not doing anything. -Howard |
| ugen: warning : line 979 : ../../../../../../src/usr/ccs/bin/ugen/const_idiv.p, line 230 |
| VAX portability is assured. |
| Additionally, the paper [xxx] can serve as an excellent tool to help any new project introspect about how it will do business. - Jim Coplien |
| We are not wholly an island, except geographically. - John Major |
| I'm drawing a line under the sand. - John Major |
| Always wear underpants beneath your kanzu before you mount your bicycle. |
| Humiliation is intrinsically comic. - Frank Conroy |
| C gains much of its vaunted efficiency by employing a very powerful pre-processor, usually called a ``programmer''. |
| T-shirt: Mom and Dad invented OOP in the 70's and all I got was C++ |
| DEC OSF/1 V1.2 Worksystem Software (Rev. 10) The installation software has successfully installed your system. |
| BD-445G (red compact car) lights no longer on |
| Checking system endianess... Big endian |
| Subject: ** PROCESS CHANGE ALERT ********************** ERROR:(-)input line 8:LI:no lists active Distribution: ihlpb!pca-usi5e |
| If Dennis Ritchie were the man who developed Modula-2 then C would be long forgotten. -Tarjei Jensen |
| From --rw-rw-rw- Sun Aug 15 04:21:17 EDT 1993 |
| If you're smart you'll remain ignorant - bobf |
| They bit the wrong chicken's head off with their own teeth and got blood all over their shirt - nls |
| Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. -Gertrude Stein |
| A coach is someone who lives and behaves Our Common Bond, and views each coaching interaction as a real measure of truth. |
| Free! Free!/A trip/to Mars/for 900/empty jars/Burma Shave |
| Standards is an area that is constantly changing. -Carl Cargill (ed. ACM StandardView) |
| This will be sexy: nothing like a good tty driver to turn you on. - Phil Winterbottom |
| To find out a person's userid, ask him. --IBM VM/CMS Primer |
| Blessed be the optionless, for they shall not eat gnu |
| Every old barn can use a little paint. - Tammy Faye Bakker on Primetime Live 11/18/93 |
| The sendmail security patch will be available in approximately two weeks. |
| Diversity better than intensity -- Xerox PARC talk (conclusion) |
| Sir Francis Drake circumcised the globe with a hundred foot clipper. |
| If a train station is where a train stops, what's a workstation? |
| I just want a bare-boned, straight EMACS. - Rae McLellan |
| Cohesion and coupling are intertwined. |
| SPEC results inflated by too many compiler flags. -Microprocessor Review |
| a.out: does not have gp tables for all it's sections |
| ?warning: write might change good version of `sendmail' |
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