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diff --git a/gph/a2b3be08.txt b/gph/a2b3be08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb1f1df --- /dev/null +++ b/gph/a2b3be08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +ID: a2b3be08-ecfe-4d90-ba72-c7da421ee897 +Title: Fortune cookies +Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net> +Date: 2021-06-17T20:49:51-00:00 +Topics: Off-topic + +* Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. + -- Tallulah Bankhead + +* A computer, to print out a fact, +Will divide, multiply, and subtract. + But this output can be + No more than debris, +If the input was short of exact. + -- Gigo + +* Conversation, n.: + A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath + is called the listener. + +* At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his +thumb with a hammer. + -- Marshall Lumsden + +* Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. + -- Jawaharlal Nehru + +* Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche +-- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, +my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off +the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was +undoubtedly true. + -- Solomon Short + +* Age, n.: + That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we +still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise +to commit. + -- Ambrose Bierce + +* A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard. + -- Prof. Steiner + +* We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last +theorem. + -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 + +* We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to +socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The +bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say +socialism? + -- Fidel Castro + +* Chism's Law of Completion: + The amount of time required to complete a government project is + precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it. + +* A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. + -- Herbert Prochnow + +* I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. + -- Bill Hoest + +* It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is +lightly greased. + -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" + +* Anything free is worth what you pay for it. + +* I think that I shall never see +A billboard lovely as a tree. +Perhaps, unless the billboards fall +I'll never see a tree at all. + -- Ogden Nash + +* Pig, n.: + An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race + by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is + inferior in scope, for it balks at pig. + -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" + +* If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot +platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave +that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska. +The world's as ugly as sin, +And almost as delightful. + -- Frederick Locker-Lampson +* Main's Law: + For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. + +* Some primal termite knocked on wood. +And tasted it, and found it good. +And that is why your Cousin May +Fell through the parlor floor today. +-- Ogden Nash + +* "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity +that would be clearly understood." + -- Alexander Haig |