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author | fanf <fanf@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-09 20:37:01 +0000 |
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committer | fanf <fanf@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-09 20:37:01 +0000 |
commit | 1f1f9bd75babfbf493a82d48e87ddad29c66ff2e (patch) | |
tree | 2d63f3c39370b3bec8ba3fc933cb326ba9a73eef /games/fortune | |
parent | c8de9314824ec6b6acba972de4bcf4f9ae07ae35 (diff) | |
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Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends.
Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.
Diffstat (limited to 'games/fortune')
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 39 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 47 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 74c0d7f..c83187a 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -3365,14 +3365,6 @@ They have no time for birth controls And that is why in times like these There are so many Sons of Bees. % -Before really embarking on a sizeable project, in particular before -starting the large investment of coding, try to kill the project -first. - -- Edsger Dijkstra, EWD1308 -% -Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anybody's -ego. -% Begathon, n.: A multi-day event on public television, used to raise money so you won't have to watch commercials. @@ -8554,12 +8546,6 @@ It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. -- Havelock Ellis % -It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to -students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential -programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of -regeneration. - -- Dijkstra -% It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle? @@ -11089,10 +11075,6 @@ probably get run over by a bus. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. -- Don Marquis % -PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the -solution set. - -- E. W. Dijkstra -% "Plaese porrf raed." -- Prof. Michael O'Longhlin, S.U.N.Y. Purchase % @@ -13914,10 +13896,6 @@ yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together. -- Sir Peter Medawar % -The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be -regarded as a criminal offense. - -- E. W. Dijkstra -% The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars. -- H. L. Mencken diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 946f8fc..75cf324 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -8047,15 +8047,6 @@ A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire % -"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, -let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that -there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, -completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of -beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. -It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club -near your person at all times." - -- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII -% A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, @@ -8272,7 +8263,7 @@ About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. % About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. - -- Edsger Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % Above all else - sky. % @@ -8866,7 +8857,7 @@ Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that. Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. - -- Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % Alas, how love can trifle with itself! -- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" @@ -11237,9 +11228,6 @@ never really caught on. Back when I was a boy, it was 40 miles to everywhere, uphill both ways and it was always snowing. % -Back when I was a boy, it was 40 miles to everywhere, uphill both ways -and it was always snowing. -% BACKWARD CONDITIONING: Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring. % @@ -11492,6 +11480,11 @@ Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. Before marriage the three little words are "I love you," after marriage they are "Let's eat out." % +Before really embarking on a sizeable project, in particular before +starting the large investment of coding, try to kill the project +first. + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD1308 +% Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anybody's ego. % Before you ask more questions, think about whether @@ -13140,7 +13133,7 @@ COBOL: Completely Over and Beyond reason Or Logic. % COBOL is for morons. - -- E.W. Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % Cobol programmers are down in the dumps. % @@ -22077,7 +22070,7 @@ I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. % I have a very small mind and must live with it. - -- E. Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % I have a very strange feeling about this... -- Luke Skywalker @@ -31794,7 +31787,7 @@ consultants, and at some point you time them out. % Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing. - -- E. Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay, Horace ate himself one day. He didn't stop to say his grace, he just sat down and ate his face. @@ -31972,10 +31965,6 @@ My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. -- Orson Welles % -My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there -are three other people. - -- Orson Welles -% My doctorate's in Literature, but it seems like a pretty good pulse to me. % My experience with government is when things are non-controversial, @@ -41158,7 +41147,7 @@ Test for paraquat: the solution will turn blue-green. % Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. - -- Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % Test-tube babies shouldn't throw stones. % @@ -44757,7 +44746,7 @@ for incompetence. The problems of business administration in general, and database management in particular are much too difficult for people that think in IBMese, compounded with sloppy English. - -- Edsger Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. @@ -45693,7 +45682,7 @@ world put together. % The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity. - -- Edsger Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. @@ -50036,7 +50025,7 @@ We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. % We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM. - -- Edsger Dijkstra + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra % We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -- Sir Francis Bacon |