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author | tg <tg@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-24 12:15:00 +0000 |
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committer | tg <tg@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-24 12:15:00 +0000 |
commit | a82580a6689a39798258762bb18bad92ab2c8d3a (patch) | |
tree | 01d63ca2ab3c9c2ea1b0313df61587d9ed219f3b /games | |
parent | 0f040bcefc6089fa617085e2f285bd8a94b2ce81 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-a82580a6689a39798258762bb18bad92ab2c8d3a.zip FreeBSD-src-a82580a6689a39798258762bb18bad92ab2c8d3a.tar.gz |
Add some fortunes and re-order the Feynman problem solving algorithm.
Thanks to gsutter for the quotes.
Reviewed by: jkh
Diffstat (limited to 'games')
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 42 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 1d80a34..570ca02 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -16957,6 +16957,15 @@ For a light heart lives long. % For adult education nothing beats children. % +For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and +women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant +religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. +The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the +known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to +prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to +misery hereafter. The few have said "Think". The many have said "Believe!" + -- Robert Ingersoll, "Gods" +% For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. % @@ -30612,6 +30621,9 @@ Many people resent being treated like the person they really are. % Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say. % +Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. + -- Bertrand Russell +% Many receive advice, few profit by it. -- Publilius Syrus % @@ -31081,6 +31093,10 @@ Men live for three things, fast cars, fast women and fast food. % Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. % +Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it +from religious conviction. + -- Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670 +% Men never make passes at girls wearing glasses. -- Dorothy Parker % @@ -32549,6 +32565,7 @@ It wastes your time and annoys the pig. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. % Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. + -- Robert Heinlein % Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where there is not or that there is not space to list it all, etc. @@ -37728,12 +37745,6 @@ Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman % -The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm: - (1) write down the problem. - (2) think very hard. - (3) write down the answer. - --Murray Gell-mann -% Really?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!! % Reappraisal, n: @@ -40541,6 +40552,11 @@ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther % +Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is +none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, +sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face. + -- Murray Gell-Mann, "Quark and the Jaguar" +% Supervisor: Do you think you understand the basic ideas of Quantum Mechanics? Supervisee: Ah! Well, what do we mean by "to understand" in the context of Quantum Mechanics? @@ -40587,10 +40603,6 @@ Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. -- Richard M. Nixon % -Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are -dishonest men in national government too. - -- Richard Nixon -% "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." % @@ -42352,6 +42364,12 @@ anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." % +The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm: + (1) write down the problem. + (2) think very hard. + (3) write down the answer. + -- Murray Gell-Mann +% The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously. % @@ -45697,6 +45715,10 @@ The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. The whole of life is futile unless you consider it as a sporting proposition. % +The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always +so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. + -- Bertrand Russell +% The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively. -- Peter Beard % |