fortune cookie file -- part 08 of 06
Tom Neff
tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET
Thu Sep 21 00:09:13 AEST 1989
apply this patch to Karl's fortune cookie file...
nothing terrible but one may as well get it right going in
*** cookies.old Wed Sep 20 10:05:38 1989
--- cookies Wed Sep 20 10:05:34 1989
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Below, the latest installment of quotes for the cookie file...
+ some typos corrected 9/20/89 - TMN
+
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"All through human history, tyrannies have tried to enforce obedience by
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-- Andy Mickel
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"And now that the legislators and the do-gooders have
! so futilely inflicted so many system upon society,
may they end up where they should have begun: may they
reject all systems, and try liberty..."
-- Frederic Bastiat
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-- Andy Mickel
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"And now that the legislators and the do-gooders have
! so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society,
may they end up where they should have begun: may they
reject all systems, and try liberty..."
-- Frederic Bastiat
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-- Dr. Richard LeBlanc, associate professor of ICS, quoted in "The Technique,"
Georgia Tech's newspaper, after the computer worm hit the Internet
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! Personally, should I ever form a globe spanning comglomerate,
I intend to do it fairly and without malice or dirty politics.
I hope you fellows don't make that too difficult a task;
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-- Dr. Richard LeBlanc, associate professor of ICS, quoted in "The Technique,"
Georgia Tech's newspaper, after the computer worm hit the Internet
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! Personally, should I ever form a globe spanning conglomerate,
I intend to do it fairly and without malice or dirty politics.
I hope you fellows don't make that too difficult a task;
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-- from an old hymn
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"Justice, like lightning, should ever appear
! To some men hope, to other mean fear."
-- Jefferson Pierce
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"No! We will not die like dogs. We will fight like lions!"
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-- from an old hymn
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"Justice, like lightning, should ever appear
! To some men hope, to other men fear."
-- Jefferson Pierce
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"No! We will not die like dogs. We will fight like lions!"
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sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
-- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
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! Objects in your terminal are close than they appear.
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"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is
evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful for the sake
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sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
-- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
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! Objects in your terminal are closer than they appear.
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"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is
evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful for the sake
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said to him, "Young man, I care neither for your politics nor for
your moustache."
! He reassured here, "You are as unlikely to come into contact with the
one as with the other."
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After winning the pennant one year, Casey Stengel commented,
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said to him, "Young man, I care neither for your politics nor for
your moustache."
! He reassured her, "You are as unlikely to come into contact with the
one as with the other."
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After winning the pennant one year, Casey Stengel commented,
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last resort, unsubscribe.
-- Dave Mack, mack at inco.UUCP, responds to a flame in news.groups
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! "Writing programs needs genuis to save the last order or the last millisecond.
It is great fun, but it is a young man's game. You start it with great
enthusiasm when you first start programming, but after ten years you get a
bit bored with it, and then you turn to automatic-programming languages and
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last resort, unsubscribe.
-- Dave Mack, mack at inco.UUCP, responds to a flame in news.groups
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! "Writing programs needs genius to save the last order or the last millisecond.
It is great fun, but it is a young man's game. You start it with great
enthusiasm when you first start programming, but after ten years you get a
bit bored with it, and then you turn to automatic-programming languages and
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Why did you lure us on like this,
Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,
Building (as though we cared for size!)
! Empire that cover galaxies,
If at journey's end we find
The same old stuff we left behind,
Well-worn Tellurian stories of
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Why did you lure us on like this,
Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,
Building (as though we cared for size!)
! Empires that cover galaxies,
If at journey's end we find
The same old stuff we left behind,
Well-worn Tellurian stories of
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of the interface, the universe. Brain contained in a perfect liquid-
crystal analog. Nerves like the strings of a steel guitar. Heart a
spinning turbopump. The Steel Cowboy, his body a screaming monochrome
! flicker, dispensing justice and righting wrongs. Who was thas masked AI?
Dunno, pardner, but he left this silver casting of a crystal circuit.
To Cowboy, it sounded pretty good.
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of the interface, the universe. Brain contained in a perfect liquid-
crystal analog. Nerves like the strings of a steel guitar. Heart a
spinning turbopump. The Steel Cowboy, his body a screaming monochrome
! flicker, dispensing justice and righting wrongs. Who was that masked AI?
Dunno, pardner, but he left this silver casting of a crystal circuit.
To Cowboy, it sounded pretty good.
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"Then May the fourth be with you."
-- Count Duckula
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! "Once you've had real champagne, you can never go back to Asti Spimanti."
-- Georgette Lundberg
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"Life is a pinball machine. You bounce around for a while, and then you drain."
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"Then May the fourth be with you."
-- Count Duckula
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! "Once you've had real champagne, you can never go back to Asti Spumanti."
-- Georgette Lundberg
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"Life is a pinball machine. You bounce around for a while, and then you drain."
--
'We have luck only with women -- \\\ Tom Neff
not spacecraft!' *-((O tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET
-- R. Kremnev, builder of FOBOS \\\ uunet!bfmny0!tneff (UUCP)
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