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- /*
- * A "fortune" cookie, every time you run it you get a different "quote".
- *
- * Copyright 1985-1994 Dave Dunfield
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * Compile command: cc fortune -fop
- */
- #include <stdio.h>
-
- static char *msgs[] = {
- "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet",
- "Everyone needs to believe in something; I believe I'll have another beer",
- "God helps those who help themselves.",
- "Every absurdity has a champion to defend it",
- "Flee at once, all is discovered",
- "Everyone is enthuastic about your work",
- "Do not underestimate the power of FORCE",
- "Don't tell me what you dreamt last nite for I've been reading Freud",
- "Death: To suddenly stop sinning",
- "Do not merely believe in miracles; rely on them",
- "retupmoc eht edisni deppart ma I - PLEH",
- "A stitch in time saves nine",
- "The programmers cheer:\nShift it to the left...\nShift it to the right...\nPOP up PUSH down...\nBYTE BYTE .. BYTE!!!",
- "On a clear disk you can seek forever...",
- "Beam me up Scottie.... There in no intelligent life down here!",
- "Don't be humble... You're not that great",
- "Be security conscious -- National defence is at stake!",
- "A good memory does not equal pale ink",
- "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill",
- "Your buisness will go though a period of considerable expansion",
- "A king's castle is his home",
- "A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity",
- "You will be hungry within the hour",
- "Volcano: A mountain with hiccups",
- "You don't know what I know",
- "Too men looking though the same bars; one sees mud, the other one stars",
- "Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once",
- "Within a computer, natural language in unnatural",
- "Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do!",
- "You always have a chance for winning - The others might lose",
- "There is no time like the pleasant",
- "Use GOTO's only to implement a fundamental structure",
- "The plural of spouse is spice",
- "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more!",
- "The future isn't what it used to be",
- "Those who in quarrels interpose must often wipe a bloody nose",
- "Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crud",
- "The end justifys the means",
- "The important thing is not to stop questioning",
- "Save yourself!!! - Reboot in 5 seconds",
- "QUACK!!!",
- "Someone is unenthusiastic about your work",
- "Passwords are implemented as a result of insecurity",
- "Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river",
- "Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone",
- "It's a poor workman who blames his tools",
- "Liar: one who tells an unpleasant truth",
- "It's easier to write a bad program than to understand a good one",
- "It's easier to write a good program than to understand a bad one",
- "It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize",
- "If you want a fortune, go to a chinese restaurant",
- "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue",
- "Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure",
- "Many are cold, but few are frozen",
- "It is a wise bird who builds his nest in a tree",
- "Logic is like a little bird, sitting in a tree, that smells AWFUL",
- "Ignorance is when you don't know anything, and someone finds out",
- "If at first you don't succeed, try again, then quit - no sense being a fool",
- "Hell is empty and all the devils are here",
- "Is there a pilot on board?",
- "She walks as if balancing the family tree on her nose",
- "God does not play dice",
- "Every purchase has its price",
- "He who speak with forked tongue, not need chopsticks",
- "A plucked goose won't lay golden eggs",
- "There is no heavier burden than a great potential",
- "Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone",
- "Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress",
- "Paranoia doesn't mean the whole world really isn't out to get you",
- "No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up",
- "Marriage: A three ring circus - Engagement ring, Wedding ring, Suffering",
- "Make sure your comments and code agree",
- "It's better to burn out that to rust out",
- "Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either",
- "It's better to burn out than to fade away",
- "God is not dead; He's only swapped out",
- "General notions are generally wrong",
- "Good intentions are far more difficult to deal with than malicious behavior",
- "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored",
- "Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you",
- "Anything worth doing is worth asking someone else to do",
- "A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn",
- "A bird in the bush can't make a mess in your hand",
- "To iterate is human, to recurse, divine",
- "Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate",
- "Some men are discovered, others are found out",
- "Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible",
- "Mind your own business Spock, I'm sick of your half-breed interference",
- "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal",
- "Live a clean happy life, and you will soon die of boredom",
- "It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them",
- "Every creature has within itself a weird uncontrollable urge to punt",
- "Don't force it, use a bigger hammer",
- "There is so much to say, but your eyes keep interrupting me",
- "He who makes no mistakes usually makes nothing",
- "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy",
- "There are more old drunkards than old doctors",
- "Last guys don't finish nice",
- "I must have slipped a disk, my pack hurts",
- "If it doesn't feel good, don't do it",
- "God must love the common man, he made so many of them",
- "I am not arguing with you -- Im telling you",
- "Today is the first day of the rest of your life",
- "Today is the last day of your life so far",
- "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature",
- "Let not the sands of time get in your lunch",
- "Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower",
- "Many pages make a thick book",
- "Its a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for",
- "Every silver lining has a cloud inside it",
- "Due to lack of interest, today has been canceled",
- "Even the smallest candle burnes brighter in the dark",
- "If you keep burning the candle at both ends, you will soon run out of wax",
- "Don't take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive",
- "LISP: To call a spade a thpade.",
- "Life as we know it dosn't exist",
- "Haste make waste - So do printers",
- "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing",
- "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness",
- "Avoid temporary variables",
- "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg",
- "Lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction",
- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance",
- "Time for lunch!",
- "To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools",
- "The best prophet of the future is the past",
- "That must be wonderful, I don't understand it at all",
- "Out of sight is out of mind",
- "Nothing dispells enthusiam like a small admission fee",
- "Integrity has no need for rules",
- "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage",
- "Tis better to die on your feet than live on your knees",
- "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler",
- "All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time",
- "Blessed are they who run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels",
- "Words must be weighed, not counted",
- "What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency",
- "Without adventure, civilization is in full decay",
- "If Noah had been truly wise... He'd have swatted those two little flys",
- "Avoid the fortran arithmetic IF",
- "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind, and won't change the subject",
- "Bad command or file name",
- "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush",
- "10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0",
- "Watch out for off-by-one errors",
- "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down",
- "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in",
- "The program is absolutely right; therefore the computer is wrong",
- "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish",
- "Observation, not old age, brings wisdom",
- "Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement",
- "Nature teaches beasts to know their friends",
- "Many receive advice, few profit from it",
- "It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa",
- "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.\nThis is the principal difference between a dog and a man",
- "I hate quotations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson",
- "God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean",
- "Discretion is the better part of valor",
- "Anybody can win - If there is no second entry",
- "An optimist belives this to be the best of all possible worlds.\nA pessimist fears this to be true",
- "Better living a beggar than buried a king",
- "Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth",
- "About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog",
- "A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows",
- "Login:",
- "You cannot kill time without injuring eternity",
- "You have mail",
- "We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history",
- "Time flies when you don't know what you're doing",
- "Quit work and play for once",
- "The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive",
- "People will buy anything thats one to a customer",
- "Make it right before you make it faster",
- "Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market",
- "Man's horizons are bounded by his vision",
- "Do not adjust your set",
- "It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you",
- "Good intentions randomize behaviour",
- "Where theres a will... There are greedy relatives",
- "People who live in glass houses.. Don't take baths",
- "You can't turn back the clock... But you can wind it up again",
- "Macho does not prove mucho",
- "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity",
- "Nothing confirms suspicion more quickly than an official denial",
- "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine",
- "What a strange game... It seems the only winning move is not to play!",
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic",
- "Pandora's rule: Never open a box you didn't close"
- } ;
-
- main()
- {
- unsigned hour, minite, second;
- register char *ptr;
-
- get_time(&hour, &minite, &second);
- ptr = msgs[((minite*60)+second) % (sizeof(msgs)/sizeof(msgs[0]))];
-
- while(*ptr)
- putc(*ptr++, stdout);
-
- if(*(ptr-1) > '@')
- putc('.', stdout);
-
- putc('\n',stdout);
- }
-