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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. | |
| Applause, n: The echo of a platitude from the mouth of a fool. -- Ambrose Bierce | |
| Two men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says, "I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices to the end of the canyon. Someone's bound to hear us by then!" So he leans over the basket and screams out, "Helllloooooo! Where are we?" (They hear the echo several times). Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: "Helllloooooo! You're lost!" The shouter comments, "That must have been a mathematician." Puzzled, his friend asks, "Why do you say that?" "For three reasons. First, he took a long time to answer, second, he was absolutely correct, and, third, his answer was absolutely useless." | |
| You know you have a small apartment when Rice Krispies echo. -- S. Rickly Christian | |
| 0 7 * * * echo "...Linux is just a fad" | mail billg@microsoft.com -s= "And remember..." | |
| echo "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice." -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution | |
| echo "Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a..." echo "but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in." -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution | |
| echo "ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.";; -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution | |
| echo $package has manual pages available in source form. echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you." -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution | |
| echo "Your stdio isn't very std." -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution | |
