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* The Ken Thompson school of thought on expert systems:dds2004-11-271-0/+4
| | | | | | | | there's table lookup, fraud, and grand fraud. -- Andrew Hume USENIX'04 Technical Conference, reported by Adam S. Moskowitz ;Login: 29(5):49, October 2004.
* s/Here about/Hear about/ and sort accordingly.schweikh2004-11-121-3/+3
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* Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark.wilko2004-10-271-0/+3
| | | | Professionals built the Titanic.
* For variables that are only checked with defined(), don't provideru2004-10-241-1/+1
| | | | any fake value.
* Improve accuracy of last addition, as best Google advices me.phk2004-10-221-2/+3
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* I'm surprised this one was not here yet.phk2004-10-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | To save you all a trip to CVSWEB: Experts have correctly predicted nine out of the last five recessions. -- Paul Samuelson, Nobel laureate in economics.
* The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have itswilko2004-09-291-0/+5
| | | | thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools. - Thucydides
* Fix make search entries.blackend2004-08-241-2/+2
| | | | | PR: docs/70899 Submitted by: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
* s/the on/on the/blackend2004-08-231-1/+1
| | | | | PR: misc/70842 Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
* Immortalize the words of a -current reader.des2004-08-201-0/+3
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* Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrandrwatson2004-08-151-0/+6
| | | | Russell.
* Correct grammo.schweikh2004-08-141-1/+1
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* The name of the landlord in Shaw's _The Man of Destiny_ is Giuseppe (notdes2004-07-262-4/+4
| | | | | | | Guiseppe) Gandi. Submitted by: Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com> MFC after: 3 days
* Make this WARNS=3 clean.le2004-07-232-5/+4
| | | | | PR: bin/38931 Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
* Fix typos.le2004-07-201-3/+3
| | | | | PR: misc/67586 Submitted by: Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net>
* Fix whitespace and punctuation.le2004-07-201-20/+16
| | | | | PR: misc/49967 Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
* Remove duplicate fortunes and fix some typos.le2004-07-201-396/+9
| | | | | | PR: misc/45839 Submitted by: Philipp Mergenthaler <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
* Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.ru2004-07-021-1/+2
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* mdoc(7): Correct the type of the display.ru2004-07-021-4/+2
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* Add a Nicollism.wollman2004-06-241-0/+3
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* Discontinue use of old libcompat regexp routines.phk2004-06-212-51/+12
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* Correct assorted typos and grammos.schweikh2004-06-101-3/+3
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* Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman.des2004-06-012-9/+9
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* Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entrydougb2004-06-011-25/+36
| | | | | by using the text from the Villard Books edition (1989, pages 6 through 8) and formatting to fit in 72 columns.
* * Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace)dougb2004-06-012-445/+420
| | | | | | | | * Spell out some names that were pointlessly abbreviated * Remove a couple of incidental duplicates * Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was added to his name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore it's not usually punctuated. * Format a couple of actual fortunes to fit into 72 columns
* Remove duplicates of the "wherever you go, there you are" fortune,dougb2004-06-012-8/+5
| | | | | quote directly from the movie, and give a better attribution (with correct spelling) for Buckaroo Banzai.
* Definition of recursion.wollman2004-05-251-0/+6
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* Added forgotten quotes for citations.schweikh2004-05-201-6/+6
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* I *knew* it would be a bad idea to touch the fortunes. *sigh*fanf2004-05-111-1/+1
| | | | | Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Pointy hat to: me, again
* Pedantry.fanf2004-05-112-3/+3
| | | | Submitted by: njl@
* On the signs of network congestion.fanf2004-05-112-0/+8
| | | | Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
* Re-sortfanf2004-05-101-3/+3
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* Moore's law vs. Nethackfanf2004-05-101-0/+2
| | | | Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
* Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong.cperciva2004-04-291-1/+1
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* Add a new fortune from petef.smkelly2004-04-291-0/+2
| | | | Obtained from: petef
* Add jerk city commentary on C++.imp2004-04-271-0/+4
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* Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages.grog2004-04-211-0/+20
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* Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele.ceri2004-04-203-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | "Ukulele" is the canonical term, with "ukelele" being a derivation. Also there is some evidence that the original appearance of the quote had the spelling "ukulele", although anyone who has a copy of Esquire from March 1967 is welcome to prove me wrong. PR: bin/65626 Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
* Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering.grog2004-03-221-0/+17
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* Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR hascperciva2004-02-181-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | a patch to mention portupgrade in freebsd-tips as well; I'm not sure if that belongs here, so I'll leave it for someone else. PR: misc/37073 Submitted by: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
* Too good to miss.wes2004-02-091-0/+3
| | | | Wisdumb by: Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
* "The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.schweikh2004-01-192-2/+2
| | | | Spotted by: grog
* typo, duh!phk2004-01-131-1/+1
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* This is simply too true to not become a fortune.phk2004-01-131-0/+3
| | | | Wisdom by: wes
* Add a tip on how to print a manual page.blackend2004-01-071-0/+7
| | | | | PR: docs/61033 Submitted by: mi@
* Stop "fortune -l" from looping forever.ceri2003-12-271-1/+1
| | | | | PR: bin/58730 Submitted by: pak <pak@cns.utoronto.ca>
* Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and aschweikh2003-12-265-32/+32
| | | | few typos.
* Use WARNS level 2 instead of setting CFLAGS explicitly to -Wall.des2003-12-072-22/+22
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* A too good Feynman quote to pass up.phk2003-12-071-0/+4
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* Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.phk2003-11-121-0/+11
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