One of the many fun things in cygwin is the tool called fortune. As per the man page, it returns a random quote or anecdote. I do not wish to take any credit away from the tool, but just share a few here:
But since I knew now that I could hope for nothing of greater value than frivolous pleasures, what point was there in denying myself of them?
-- M. Proust
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
-- Laurence J. Peter, "Peter's Principles"
The Briggs-Chase Law of Program Development:
To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
--Maxine Hong Kingston,
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow.
--Dogbert Dilbert strip of February 5, 1995
1 comment:
Dogbert rocks.
He is the only one who can intersect Darwinism and Management.
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