>> "The society which scorns excellence in
>> plumbing as a humble acturiety and tolerates
>> shoddiness in philosophy because it is an
>> exaulted activity will have neither good
>> plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its
>> pipes nor its theories will hold water."
>
> Who said that one?

Sorry, but that was not recorded. "fortune" is a little proggy that when called will give you one often funny sometimes thoughtful saying or quote or annecdote. Some of the quotes have a name below them, but many others dont.

"fortune" uses a little database of maybe a few hundred "fortune cookies" to present to you and simply picks when at random. If you want to know more about it and have a Unix box handy (Linux shoudl do) type "man fortune" to see whether your system has is and if so to read the explanation.

Now here is an idea : some of the Rink features, like "Computer Stupidities" or "Things People Said" could be turned into "fortune" data files :-) At least the smaller annecdotes.

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Stephan