# HG changeset patch # User HackBot # Date 1371759281 0 # Node ID 123033f2006149e5200724c086dda52ed3a09601 # Parent 0696d8a6c332e5547f2c60a45c34de71972a5825 pastefortunes diff -r 0696d8a6c332 -r 123033f20061 paste/paste.15156 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/paste/paste.15156 Thu Jun 20 20:14:41 2013 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +Paprika Measure: + 2 dashes == 1 smidgen + 2 smidgens == 1 pinch + 3 pinches == 1 soupcon + 2 soupcons == 2 much paprika +----- +I shot an arrow in to the air, and it stuck. + -- graffito in Los Angeles + +On a clear day, +U.C.L.A. + -- graffito in San Francisco + +There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our +lungs there'd be no place to put it all. + -- Robert Orben +----- +Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue. + -- Alfieri +----- +"An organization dries up if you don't challenge it with growth." + -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments +----- +People disagree with me. I just ignore them. + -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the use of C++ for the Linux kernel +----- +The most dangerous food is wedding cake. + -- American proverb +----- +Overdrawn? But I still have checks left! +----- +Can't open /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes. Lid stuck on cookie jar. +----- +O primeiro homem que, tendo erguido uma cerca em volta de seu terreno e +proclamado `isto me pertence!', encontrou gente ingênua o suficiente para +acreditar nele, foi o fundador da sociedade civil. + -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, filósofo suíço +----- + ._. + \ ) ( / + ._)\|o|/(_, + |___ O ___| + ' )/|o|\( ` + / | | \ + | | + )_( +----- +> The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF +> being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that +> it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it +> happening in the near future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does +> mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid +> reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing +> negative so far). +> +> Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains: +> I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented +> that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse. +> If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me +> on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so +> far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something +> better of it (*). +> +> Linus +> +> (*) Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does +> somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke. + -- Taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux +----- +If just one piece of mail gets lost, well, they'll just think they forgot +to send it. But if *two* pieces of mail get lost, hell, they'll just think +the other guy hasn't gotten around to answering his mail. And if *fifty* +pieces of mail get lost, can you imagine it, if *fifty* pieces of mail get +lost, why they'll think someone *else* is broken! And if 1Gb of mail gets +lost, they'll just *know* that Arpa [ucbarpa.berkeley.edu] is down and +think it's a conspiracy to keep them from their God given right to receive +Net Mail ... + -- Casey Leedom +----- +The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a +digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top +of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean +the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself. + -- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" +----- +A man is known by the company he organizes. + -- Ambrose Bierce +----- +Errar é humano, mas quando a borracha se gasta mais do que o lápis, você +está positivamente exagerando. + -- J. Jenkis +----- +All heiresses are beautiful. + -- John Dryden +----- +Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. +----- +Oportunidades normalmente estão disfarçadas de trabalho duro, de forma +que muitas vezes as pessoas não as reconhecem. +----- +I was offered a job as a hoodlum and I turned it down cold. A thief is +anybody who gets out and works for his living, like robbing a bank or +breaking into a place and stealing stuff, or kidnapping somebody. He really +gives some effort to it. A hoodlum is a pretty lousy sort of scum. He +works for gangsters and bumps guys off when they have been put on the spot. +Why, after I'd made my rep, some of the Chicago Syndicate wanted me to work +for them as a hood -- you know, handling a machine gun. They offered me +two hundred and fifty dollars a week and all the protection I needed. I +was on the lam at the time and not able to work at my regular line. But +I wouldn't consider it. "I'm a thief," I said. "I'm no lousy hoodlum." + -- Alvin Karpis, "Public Enemy Number One" +----- +Faceiro como guri de tirador novo. +----- +About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. +-----