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Kris Kennaway a6c4457396 Line wrap previous entry
Submitted by:	des
2007-03-30 04:31:53 +00:00
Kris Kennaway 76ddc8179b Add some more random offensive quotes. 2007-03-29 08:08:34 +00:00
Kris Kennaway 314d29caae A note from Peter Wemm about how to tell the difference between amd64 and
ia64.
2007-03-29 07:49:59 +00:00
Kris Kennaway 9a88eeec45 Dialogue gem from Deadwood 2007-03-29 07:40:49 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan ff75233a7a - Fix typo
PR:		bin/110648
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@speakeasy.net>
Approved by:	keramida (mentor)
MFC after:	3 days
2007-03-26 11:44:46 +00:00
Philip Paeps 3fdbb5f071 Add Wise Words from Colin on irregular verbs and code quality. :-)
Submitted by:	cperciva
2007-01-11 15:19:53 +00:00
Doug Barton 1e11060f37 More minor cleanups:
1. Fix small typo "retorted ." -> "retorted."
2. Remove from fortunes a story that is duplicated in fortunes2-o
3. Remove from fortunes and fortunes2-o Zippy the Pinhead quotes
that are already in the zippy file.
4. ... therefore remove zippy from fortunes.sp.ok
5. Remove a duplicate in the zippy file.
2007-01-06 22:04:46 +00:00
Doug Barton 574c45c445 Add the fortunes from the PR that were not already present.
Delete some duplicates found while double checking the new ones,
and fix a typo.

These haven't been sorted yet, but will be in a future commit.

PR:		ports/40273
Submitted by:	Achim Patzner <ap@proxon.bnc.net>
2006-12-30 21:54:41 +00:00
Greg Lehey e29e66e0c3 Wisdom of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan.
Submitted by: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
2006-12-13 00:33:39 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov 576be2064b o Fix typo: manger -> manager.
PR:		misc/106253
Submitted by:	Niclas Zeising
MFC after:	1 week
2006-12-03 15:25:55 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov 7300fd9b5e o /stand/sysinstall -> /usr/sbin/sysinstall.
PR:		conf/106254
Submitted by:	Simon Olofsson
MFC after:	1 week
2006-12-03 15:22:45 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas b133abd183 Squash a typo.
Submitted by:	Miltiadis Margaronis <mmargaron@gmail.com>
2006-10-30 12:01:57 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp bc968064a9 It so happens that everything that is stupid is not unconstitutional.
-- Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia
2006-10-23 13:25:17 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp b9a3a80ddc Voltaire again. 2006-10-20 18:12:25 +00:00
Chin-San Huang 8118616431 Add a tip on "how to strip UTF-8 BOM"
Approved by:	delphij (mentor)
2006-10-09 04:11:34 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp 7954042f27 Add a delightful typographic gem I discovered on page 143 in Edward
Tuftes book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

The constant width font does not quite do the typeset original justice,
but it is is good enough for a fortune.
2006-10-07 08:29:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt 1a0ba4525f Correct typo. 2006-09-27 19:20:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp 807ee6099c Too many good quotes flying by these days. 2006-09-17 21:36:16 +00:00
Wilko Bulte 0dc7ac73d8 visionary thoughts..
MFC after: 1 week
2006-08-27 14:29:10 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy 776fc0e90e Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim.
This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.

PR:		misc/101245
Submitted by:	Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfreak org>
Tested by:	md5(1)
MFC after:	1 week
2006-08-04 07:56:35 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp b4442b2c80 And now without typo. 2006-07-10 16:53:32 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp 2c2ec0b614 Add a good quote that gets used a lot in the debate about global
warming right now:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it.
                -- Upton Sinclir
2006-07-10 16:30:46 +00:00
Mark Murray 7c92769c19 More stale maintainer. 2006-07-09 20:26:36 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp cef2c44390 +To create quality software, the ability to say no is usually far
+more important than the ability to say yes.
+               -- Michi Henning
+%
2006-06-20 08:34:36 +00:00
Greg Lehey 7748dfd4c0 Burying UNIX--a quote by Rob Pike,
Seen on The UNIX Heritage Society mailing list.
2006-06-12 23:28:52 +00:00
Philip Paeps 0b3691a359 Add two little nuggets of wisdom I picked up at work today:
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
  soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with
  an idea. -- The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook

  and

  Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and
  bragged about forever. -- Button at the Boston Computer Museum

I wonder why people call me a cynic. ;-)
2006-06-12 21:02:19 +00:00
Wilko Bulte e6f719c1d2 Who am I to correct the native speakers... anyway, s/council/counsel/
Noted by: des
2006-06-12 13:44:17 +00:00
Wilko Bulte 2a01134cc9 Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason
given proper legal council.

- Alfred Perlstein
2006-06-12 07:56:33 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis fd6f84b1df Layers are for cakes, not for software.
-- Bart Smaalders

From Performance Anti-patterns. ACM Queue 4(1):44-50. February 2006.
(Author confirmed via email that the quote is his own).
2006-05-28 06:16:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp 9c7560167d In our system there's no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme
Court decision and violent revolution.
                -- Al Gore (New York Magazine, May 29 2006)
2006-05-25 11:21:40 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp e267a10bc3 To save you all the trouble with CVSWEB:
Peter Fellgett's wildcard recipe:
       Into a clean dish, place the dry ingredients and add the
       liquids until the right consistency is obtained. Turn out
       into suitable containers and cook until done.
2006-05-17 11:00:49 +00:00
Wilko Bulte 63654e38ab Go figure this error...
Submitted by: Thomas Beha
2006-05-09 08:28:16 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis 148baf2e02 Add attribution: the quote comes from Perlis's Paradigms of AI Programming
p. 348.  See http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
2006-04-24 12:13:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt a8b9bc3be4 Remove a corrupted fortune ending in line noise. Even googling did not
turn up a non-corrupted version, else I would have restored it.
(No, it's not the one that uses line noise intentionally.)
2006-04-17 12:14:46 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov 26ca704dbd o s/you health/your health/.
PR:		conf/95810
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson
2006-04-15 17:07:32 +00:00
Wilko Bulte 6362a01f31 Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank.
MFC after: 1 month
2006-02-19 21:46:29 +00:00
Greg Lehey cddfe5e9f6 Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem.
Submitted by: Mårten Mickos
2006-02-16 09:30:12 +00:00
Greg Lehey 8f2df498c8 Clarify time frame of jkh quote. 2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
Greg Lehey b28acf1ca5 Add wisdom from jkh. 2006-01-31 21:41:32 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis 03b20b4ab1 Never do programs contain so few bugs as when no debugging tools
are available.
                -- Niklaus Wirth

Pointed by: Panagiotis Louridas
2006-01-28 09:19:20 +00:00
Colin Percival 6b9d644495 Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by
system calls.
2006-01-27 21:06:19 +00:00
Matteo Riondato f58efa8625 Remove some duplicated entries
PR:		conf/81924
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Approved by:	philip (mentor)
MFC after:	3 days
2006-01-21 14:16:01 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt bb3020ee66 Correct some typos. 2005-12-26 16:09:58 +00:00
Wilko Bulte e2f9880300 We will not be responsible for damage to equipment, your ego, county wide
power outages, spontaneously generated mini (or larger) black holes,
planetary disruptions, or personal injury or worse that may result from the
use of this material.
                -- taken from Samuel M. Goldwasser's
                   Sam's Strobe FAQ Notes on the Troubleshooting
                   and Repair of Electronic Flash Units and Strobe Lights
2005-12-25 23:29:59 +00:00
Wilko Bulte aefc1eb332 "A life lived in fear is a life half lived" 2005-12-24 17:55:33 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis 8af06aba63 Add missing John Gilmore quote. 2005-12-12 15:47:33 +00:00
Doug Barton dbc1cd4c36 Canonify, correct, and add citations related to Douglas Adams' work.
Correct a quotation from Hitchhiker's.
2005-12-05 06:47:23 +00:00
Wes Peters e1b1e0baee Add another 'best quote about XML evar!' courtesy Pav Lucistnik (pav@) 2005-12-01 04:28:07 +00:00
Wilko Bulte b099d1e351 correct typo 2005-11-23 09:00:35 +00:00
Wilko Bulte 1fbc4b9d85 add witty remark about serious thought.
MFC after: 2 days
2005-11-21 21:42:43 +00:00