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  fortune index  all fortunes 
  
 |  |  | #2371 |  | Tomorrow's computers some time next month. -- DEC
 
 |  |  |  | #2372 |  | Too often people have come to me and said, "If I had just one wish for anything in all the world, I would wish for more user-defined equations
 in the HP-51820A Waveform Generator Software."
 -- Instrument News
 [Once is too often.  Ed.]
 
 |  |  |  | #2373 |  | Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: 
 (10) Sorry, but that's too useful.
 (9) Dammit, little-endian systems *are* more consistent!
 (8) I'm on the committee and I *still* don't know what the hell
 #pragma is for.
 (7) Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers too
 hard to write.
 (6) Them bats is smart; they use radar.
 (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in
 here?
 (4) How many times do we have to tell you, "No prior art!"
 (3) Ha, ha, I can't believe they're actually going to adopt this
 sucker.
 (2) Thank you for your generous donation, Mr. Wirth.
 (1) Gee, I wish we hadn't backed down on 'noalias'.
 
 |  |  |  | #2374 |  | TRANSACTION CANCELLED - FARECARD RETURNED 
 |  |  |  | #2375 |  | Trap full -- please empty. 
 |  |  |  | #2376 |  | Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine
 
 |  |  |  | #2377 |  | Try `stty 0' -- it works much better. 
 |  |  |  | #2378 |  | try again 
 |  |  |  | #2379 |  | Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading:  Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?  Reports are now written in four
 tenses:  past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense.  Watch for
 novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmar), defined by the imperfect past,
 the insufficient present, and the absolutely perfect future.
 -- Amrom Katz
 
 |  |  |  | #2380 |  | Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
 
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