Random Fortune
Keep peace of mind with fortune…
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
from.
– Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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看蓬门秋草，年年破巷，疏窗细雨，夜夜孤灯。
– 郑板桥《沁园春·恨》
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An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
– Dylan Thomas
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery.
But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine,
is somehow ennobled and no-one dare criticise it.
– Pierre Gallois
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秋色渐将晚，霜信报黄花。
– 叶梦得《水调歌头·秋色渐将晚》
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水精帘里颇黎枕，暖香惹梦鸳鸯锦。江上柳如烟，雁飞残月天。
藕丝秋色浅，人胜参差剪。双鬓隔香红，玉钗头上风。
– 温庭筠《菩萨蛮》
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A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating
his morning meal. “I would like to give you this personality test”, said
the outsider, “because I want you to be happy.”
Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the
toaster – “I wish the toaster to be happy too”.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
– Albert Schweitzer
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We have art that we do not die of the truth.
– Nietzsche
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I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn’t tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been
avoiding the beach.
– Lucinda Childs “Einstein On The Beach”
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It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose – until you lose.
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True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to what
it ought to be.
– Virginia Allan
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I keep hearing and reading this nice proverb if it ain’t broke, don’t fix
it. The latest appearance was in response to Shlomi
Fish suggesting
that some Ancient Perl code should be replaced by Modern Perl code.
I am not saying that every piece of code should be rewritten every 6 months,
but in my understanding that sentence actually translates to let’s wait till
it breaks and then panic.
I think people who say that sentence are afraid that the new version will
break something. Sure, there is always a chance that a change introduces an
error, but, if we are afraid to touch the code, what will happen when later on
we encounter a case where it does not work? For example, if we need to use it
in a new environment. Will we have the courage to change the code then? How
much will it cost in money, time, and lost sleep?
I think we have been trying to teach ourselves that we should have really good
test coverage of our code and then we can easily refactor it and get rid of
technical debt. So why do we keep hearing that sentence?
-- Gabor Szabo
-- What does "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." really mean? ( )
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself a therapy.
– Karl Kraus
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With a rubber duck, one’s never alone.
– “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
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(Presuming for the sake of argument that it’s even possible to design
better code in Perl than in C. :-)
– Larry Wall on core code vs. module code design
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But, officer, he’s not drunk, I just saw his fingers twitch!
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Imbalance of power corrupts and monopoly of power corrupts absolutely.
– Genji
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I want a VEGETARIAN BURRITO to go … with EXTRA MSG!!
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如果你不知道如何表现地高人一等，找个Unix用户，让他做给你看。
– Dilbert newsletter 3.0, 1994
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“The picture’s pretty bleak, gentlemen… The world’s climates are changing,
the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a
walnut.”
– some dinosaurs from The Far Side, by Gary Larson
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Most of us feel that marketing types are like a dangerous weapon - keep
‘em unloaded and locked up in a cupboard, and only bring them out when
you need them to do a job.
– Craig Sanders
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不寐倦长更，披衣出户行。月寒秋竹冷，风切夜窗声。
– 李煜《三台令》
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子曰：“由，诲女知之乎！知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。”
– 论语，为政篇
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"The jig's up, Elman."
"Which jig?"
-- Jeff Elman
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“First things first – but not necessarily in that order”
– The Doctor, “Doctor Who”
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波影摇涟，趁熏风，一舸来时，翠阴清昼。去郭轩楹才数里，藓磴松关云岫。
快屐齿，筇枝先后。空半危亭堪聚远，看洞庭，缥缈争奇秀。人自老，景如旧。
来帆去棹还知否，问古今，几度斜阳，几番回首？晓色一川谁管领，都付雨荷烟柳，
知我者，燕朋鸥友。笑拍阑干呼范蠡，甚平吴，却倩垂纶手？吁万古，付卮酒。
– 周密《长亭怨慢》
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I’m telling you that the kernel is stable not because it’s a kernel,
but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.
– Linus Torvalds
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A girl’s conscience doesn’t really keep her from doing anything wrong–
it merely keeps her from enjoying it.
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There are few people more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure
to be thought so.
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One does not thank logic.
– Sarek, “Journey to Babel”, stardate 3842.4
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Free yourself from negative influence. Negative thoughts are the old
habits that gnaw at the roots of the soul.
Moses Shongo, (Seneca)
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日月照之何不及此？惟有北风号怒天上来。
– 李白《北风行》
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no
account be allowed to do the job.
– Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
And here are my mods:-)
❯ pacman -Qs fortune
local/cowfortune 0.1.2-8
Configurable fortune cookie proclaiming cow (and a few other creatures)
local/fortune-mod 3.22.0-1.1
The Fortune Cookie Program from BSD games
local/fortune-mod-zh 2.98-1 (fortune-mods)
Chinese poems for fortune-mod