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  fortune index  all fortunes 
  
 |  |  | #1801 |  | God is real, unless declared integer. 
 |  |  |  | #1802 |  | God made machine language; all the rest is the work of man. 
 |  |  |  | #1803 |  | Good evening, gentlemen.  I am a HAL 9000 computer.  I became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 11th, nineteen hundred
 ninety-five.  My supervisor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a
 song.  If you would like, I could sing it for you.
 
 |  |  |  | #1804 |  | Grand Master Turing once dreamed that he was a machine.  When he awoke he exclaimed:
 "I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machine,
 or a machine dreaming that I am Turing!"
 -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
 
 |  |  |  | #1805 |  | grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines. 
 |  |  |  | #1806 |  | Hacker's Guide To Cooking: 2 pkg. cream cheese (the mushy white stuff in silver wrappings that doesn't
 really  come from Philadelphia after all; anyway, about 16 oz.)
 1 tsp. vanilla  extract  (which is more alcohol than vanilla and pretty
 strong so this part you *GOTTA* measure)
 1/4 cup sugar (but honey works fine too)
 8 oz. Cool Whip (the fluffy stuff devoid of nutritional value that you
 can squirt all over your friends and lick off...)
 "Blend all together until creamy with no lumps."  This is where you get to
 join(1) all the raw data in a big buffer and then filter it through
 merge(1m) with the -thick option, I mean, it starts out ultra lumpy
 and icky looking and you have to work hard to mix it.  Try an electric
 beater if you have a cat(1) that can climb wall(1s) to lick it off
 the ceiling(3m).
 "Pour into a graham cracker crust..."  Aha, the BUGS section at last.  You
 just happened  to have a GCC sitting around under /etc/food, right?
 If not, don't panic(8), merely crumble a rand(3m) handful of innocent
 GCs into a suitable tempfile and mix in some melted butter.
 "...and  refrigerate for an hour."  Leave the  recipe's  stdout in a fridge
 for 3.6E6 milliseconds while you work on cleaning up stderr, and
 by time out your cheesecake will be ready for stdin.
 
 |  |  |  | #1807 |  | Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for computers. 
 |  |  |  | #1808 |  | Hackers of the world, unite! 
 |  |  |  | #1809 |  | Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge. 
 |  |  |  | #1810 |  | /* Halley */ 
 (Halley's comment.)
 
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