Fortune List
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[as in \"to brain\"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 481 }, { "body": "Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 483 }, { "body": "Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 482 }, { "body": "Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.", "qode": "Bringing computers into the home wo n't q1o_VB either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 484 }, { "body": "Broad-mindedness: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 485 }, { "body": "Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.", "qode": "Brooke 's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some q1r_JJ fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.", "q1": [ { "name": "hell", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell", "e": "hurt", "r": "damn", "o": "fallen", "s": "eternal", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 42 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 487 }, { "body": "Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 486 }, { "body": "Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence. See also \"vacuum tube\".", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 488 }, { "body": "Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 489 }, { "body": "Bug: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 490 }, { "body": "Bumper Sticker: Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 491 }, { "body": "Bumper sticker on nuclear war: if you have seen one, you have seen them all.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 492 }, { "body": "Bunk Carter's Law: At any given moment there are more important people in the world than important jobs to contain them.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 493 }, { "body": "Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ― Balzac", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 494 }, { "body": "Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 495 }, { "body": "Bureaucrats cut read tape ― length-wise.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 496 }, { "body": "Burnt Sienna: That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas. ― Ken Weaver", "qode": "Burnt Sienna: That 's the q1e_JJS thing that ever happened to Crayolas. ― Ken Weaver", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 497 }, { "body": "Business will be either better or worse. ― Calvin Coolidge", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 498 }, { "body": "\"But I don't like Spam!\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 8 }, { "body": "... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard example of ancient nonsense ― the debate about angels on pinheads ― makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number. ― S. J. Gould, \"Wide Hats and Narrow Minds\"", "qode": "... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so q3e_RB as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense q2o_NN in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard example of ancient nonsense ― the debate about angels on pinheads ― makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a q1r_NN or an q1e_JJ number. ― S. J. Gould,\" Wide Hats and Narrow Minds\"", "q1": [ { "name": "distance", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance", "e": "far", "r": "near", "o": "relation", "s": "position", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 9 }, { "name": "light", "user": "Greggo", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light", "e": "shine", "r": "brighten", "o": "energy", "s": "vision", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 80 } ], "q2": [ { "name": "space", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space", "e": "infinite", "r": "finite", "o": "between", "s": "void", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 28 } ], "subs": "EORE", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 113 }, { "body": "But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. ― Bruce Leverett, \"Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 499 }, { "body": "But in the end I remind myself that people are merely shaved apes, and pretty much spend their time masturbating and throwing feces. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "But in the end I remind myself that people are merely shaved apes, and pretty much q1r_VBP their q2n_NN masturbating and throwing feces. ― Rich Simons", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2658 }, { "body": "But in the end I remind myself that people are merely shaved apes, and pretty much spend their time masturbating and throwing feces. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "But in the end I remind myself that people are merely shaved apes, and pretty much q1r_VBP their q2n_NN masturbating and throwing feces. ― Rich Simons", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2630 }, { "body": "\"But this has taken us far afield from interface, which is not a bad place to be, since I particularly want to move ahead to the kludge. Why do people have so much trouble understanding the kludge? What is a kludge, after all, but not enough Ks, not enough ROMs, not enough RAMs, poor quality interface and too few bytes to go around? Have I explained yet about the bytes?\"", "qode": "\" But this has taken us q2e_RB afield from interface, which is not a bad place to be, since I particularly want to move ahead to the kludge. Why do people have so much trouble understanding the kludge? What is a kludge, after all, but not enough Ks, not enough ROMs, not enough RAMs, poor q1s_NN interface and too few bytes to go around? Have I explained yet about the bytes?\"", "q1": [ { "name": "distance", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance", "e": "far", "r": "near", "o": "relation", "s": "position", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 9 }, { "name": "resources", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource", "e": "active", "r": "passive", "o": "quantity", "s": "quality", "quadranym_id": 25 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ES", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 9 }, { "body": "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ― Mark Twain", "qode": "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common q1n_NN to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ― Mark Twain", "q1": [ { "name": "humanity", "user": "dane", "e": "love", "r": "hate", "o": "apathy", "s": "sympathy", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 109 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2767 }, { "body": "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. ― George Carlin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2644 }, { "body": "By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. ― Ashleigh Brilliant", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 500 }, { "body": "By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 501 }, { "body": "By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun. ― P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool's column in the April 1988 issue of \"Computer Language\"", "qode": "By long- standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage q1o_JJ designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun. ― P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool 's column in the April 1988 issue of\" Computer Language\"", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 502 }, { "body": "By one count there are some 700 scientists with respectable academic credentials (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) who give credence to creation-science, the general theory that complex life forms did not evolve but appeared \"abruptly.\" ― Newsweek, June 29, 1987, pg. 23", "qode": "By one count there are some 700 scientists with respectable academic credentials( out of a q2o_NN of 480,000 U.S. earth and q1n_NN scientists) who give credence to creation- science, the general theory that complex q1n_NN forms did not evolve but appeared\" abruptly.\" ― Newsweek, June 29, 1987, pg. 23", "q1": [ { "name": "aggregate", "user": "dane", "e": "multiply", "r": "divide", "o": "total", "s": "constituent", "quadranym_id": 1 } ], "q2": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "subs": "ONN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 503 }, { "body": "Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get THERE. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ― Douglas Adams, \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "qode": "Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while q3o_JJ people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, q4s_VBG a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what 's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what 's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get THERE. They often wish that people would just once and for all q2o_NN out where the q1n_NN they wanted to be. ― Douglas Adams,\" The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "q1": [ { "name": "hell", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell", "e": "hurt", "r": "damn", "o": "fallen", "s": "eternal", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 42 }, { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 }, { "name": "experience", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience", "e": "occurring", "r": "reoccurring", "o": "presence", "s": "being", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 13 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OSON", "depth": 4, "fortune_id": 2720 }, { "body": "Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.", "qode": "Cabbage: A q1r_JJ kitchen- garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man 's head.", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 508 }, { "body": "Cabbage, n.: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "Cabbage, n.: A q1r_JJ kitchen- garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man 's head. ― Ambrose Bierce,\" The Devil 's Dictionary\"", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 507 }, { "body": "Caeca invidia est. (Envy is blind.) ― Livy", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 509 }, { "body": "Cahn's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 510 }, { "body": "California is a fine place to live ― if you happen to be an orange. ― Fred Allen", "qode": "California is a fine place to q1e_VB ― if you happen to be an orange. ― Fred Allen", "q1": [ { "name": "heaven", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven", "e": "live", "r": "bless", "o": "holiness", "s": "penance", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 70 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 511 }, { "body": "California is the ghost of Christmas future for the rest of America. ― anonymous post to an Internet forum", "qode": "California is the ghost of Christmas q1e_NN for the rest of America. ― anonymous post to an Internet forum", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 512 }, { "body": "California is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance. ― Ashley Montagu", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 513 }, { "body": "Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ― Indian proverb", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 514 }, { "body": "\"Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle.\" ― Alice Roosevelt Longworth", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 10 }, { "body": "Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 515 }, { "body": "Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.", "qode": "Can anything be sadder than q1o_NN left unfinished? Yes, q1o_NN never begun.", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "subs": "OO", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 516 }, { "body": "Cannot fork ― try again.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 517 }, { "body": "Cannot fortune open database.", "qode": "Can not fortune q1n_JJ database.", "q1": [ { "name": "open", "user": "scotty", "e": "reach", "r": "pull", "o": "opened", "s": "pull action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 61 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 518 }, { "body": "Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool Mom.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 519 }, { "body": "Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.", "qode": "Carelessly planned projects take three q1n^NNS longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four q1n^NNS longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the q1n_NN it takes.", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NNN", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 520 }, { "body": "Carperpetuation (kar' pur pet u a shun), n.: The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance. ― Rich Hall, \"Sniglets\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 521 }, { "body": "Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world.", "qode": "Catch a wave and you 're sitting on q1o_NN of the world.", "q1": [ { "name": "table", "user": "dane", "e": "raised", "r": "flat", "o": "top", "s": "surface", "quadranym_id": 30 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 522 }, { "body": "CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.. ― Randall Garrett", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 506 }, { "body": "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an q1r_JJ stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the q2e_NN of their sturdy health and ripe years; the q4n_NN q3s_VBG that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. ― Ambrose Bierce,\" The Devil 's Dictionary\"", "q1": [ { "name": "container", "user": "scotty", "src": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container", "e": "full", "r": "empty", "o": "content", "s": "hold", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 5 }, { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 }, { "name": "truth", "user": "dane", "src": "Whitehead", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth", "e": "adventure", "r": "art", "o": "beauty", "s": "peace", "quadranym_id": 33 }, { "name": "experience", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience", "e": "occurring", "r": "reoccurring", "o": "presence", "s": "being", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 13 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RENS", "depth": 4, "fortune_id": 523 }, { "body": "Change is what people fear most. ― Dostoevski", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 524 }, { "body": "Change your thoughts and you change your world.", "qode": "q1o^VB your thoughts and you q1o_VBP your world.", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OO", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 525 }, { "body": "Character Density: the number of very weird people in the office.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 526 }, { "body": "Character is the ligament holding together all other qualities. ― Arnold Glasow", "qode": "Character is the ligament holding together all q1o_JJ qualities. ― Arnold Glasow", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 527 }, { "body": "Chemicals, n.: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 528 }, { "body": "Chicken Little was right.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 529 }, { "body": "Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 530 }, { "body": "Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. ― Ogden Nash", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 531 }, { "body": "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ― Oscar Wilde", "qode": "Children begin by loving their parents. After a q1n_NN they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ― Oscar Wilde", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 532 }, { "body": "Children have more need of models than of critics.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 533 }, { "body": "Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 534 }, { "body": "Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2871 }, { "body": "Chism's Law of Completion: The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.", "qode": "Chism 's Law of Completion: The amount of q1n_NN required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of q1n_NN already spent on it.", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "subs": "NN", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 535 }, { "body": "Chisolm's First Corollary to Murphy's Second Law: When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 536 }, { "body": "Civilisation is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. ― Julian Jaynes", "qode": "Civilisation is the q1r_NN of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. ― Julian Jaynes", "q1": [ { "name": "truth", "user": "dane", "src": "Whitehead", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth", "e": "adventure", "r": "art", "o": "beauty", "s": "peace", "quadranym_id": 33 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 537 }, { "body": "Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor. ― Toynbee", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 539 }, { "body": "Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2768 }, { "body": "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. ― Howard Roark, in Ayn Rand's _The Fountainhead_", "qode": "Civilization is the q1r_NN toward a society of privacy. ― Howard Roark, in Ayn Rand 's_ The Fountainhead_", "q1": [ { "name": "utopian control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia", "e": "advance", "r": "progress", "o": "Earths survival", "s": "fraternity", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 103 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 540 }, { "body": "Civilization Law #1: Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations one can do without thinking about them.", "qode": "Civilization Law# 1: Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations one can do without q1r_VBG about them.", "q1": [ { "name": "personality", "user": "dane", "src": "Carl Jung", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "feeling", "r": "thinking", "o": "sensual", "s": "intuitive", "quadranym_id": 21 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 538 }, { "body": "[Classical music] would be a lot more popular if they gave the pieces titles like \"Kill the Wabbit.\" ― Mark Fetherolf.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 541 }, { "body": "Classified material requires proper storage.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 542 }, { "body": "Cleanliness is next to impossible.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 543 }, { "body": "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2741 }, { "body": "C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. ― Ray Simard", "qode": "C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it is n't very much like either one, or anything else. 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(I think, therefore I am depressed.)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 545 }, { "body": "Cogito ergo sum.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 546 }, { "body": "Cohen's Law: Everyone knows that the name of the game is what label you succeed in imposing on the facts.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 547 }, { "body": "Collaboration, n.: A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell.", "qode": "Collaboration, n.: A literary q1n_NN based on the false assumption that the q2o_JJ fellow can spell.", "q1": [ { "name": "partnership", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership", "e": "individual", "r": "relationship", "o": "accountability", "s": "compatability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 127 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 548 }, { "body": "College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity. ― H. L. Mencken", "qode": "College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great q1e_NN in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity. ― H. L. Mencken", "q1": [ { "name": "rate", "user": "scotty", "e": "increase", "r": "decrease", "o": "variation", "s": "constant", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 81 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2563 }, { "body": "College isn't the place to go for ideas. ― Hellen Keller", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 549 }, { "body": "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 550 }, { "body": "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare. ― Blair Houghton", "qode": "Come to q1r_VB of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is q2r_NN like Shakespeare. ― Blair Houghton", "q1": [ { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 }, { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 551 }, { "body": "Commitment, n.: Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, the pig was committed.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 552 }, { "body": "Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 553 }, { "body": "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2830 }, { "body": "Complacency is the enemy of progress. ― Dave Stutman", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 554 }, { "body": "...computer hardware progress is so fast. No other technology since civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price gain in 30 years. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "qode": "... computer hardware q1r_NN is so fast. No q2o_JJ technology since civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance- price gain in 30 years. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "q1": [ { "name": "utopian control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia", "e": "advance", "r": "progress", "o": "Earths survival", "s": "fraternity", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 103 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 124 }, { "body": "Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives? ― Alan Kay, \"Computer Software\", Scientific American, September 1984", "qode": "Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a q1s_NN of our lives? ― Alan Kay,\" Computer Software\", Scientific American, September 1984", "q1": [ { "name": "structure", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure", "e": "complete", "r": "separate", "o": "interdependent", "s": "dependent", "pos": "NN", "epos": "VB", "rpos": "VB", "opos": "NN", "spos": "NN", "realm": "Perceptual", "quadranym_id": 29 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 557 }, { "body": "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.", "qode": "Computer Science is merely the post- Turing q1r_NN in formal systems theory.", "q1": [ { "name": "light", "user": "Greggo", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light", "e": "growth", "r": "decline", "o": "vision", "s": "vision", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 79 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 555 }, { "body": "Computer Science: the boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities (The Devil's DP Dictionary)", "qode": "Computer Science: the boring q1r_NN of coping with a large number of trivialities( The Devil 's DP Dictionary)", "q1": [ { "name": "truth", "user": "dane", "src": "Whitehead", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth", "e": "adventure", "r": "art", "o": "beauty", "s": "peace", "quadranym_id": 33 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 556 }, { "body": "Conceit causes more conversation than wit. ― LaRouchefoucauld", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 558 }, { "body": "Concept, n.: Any \"idea\" for which an outside consultant billed you more than $25,000.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 559 }, { "body": "Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds. ― Frederick Brooks Jr., \"The Mythical Man Month\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 560 }, { "body": "Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2841 }, { "body": "Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. ― Peter de Vries", "qode": "Confession is good for the q1s_NN only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. ― Peter de Vries", "q1": [ { "name": "transcendence", "user": "dane", "src": "Traditional!?", "e": "spirit", "r": "mind", "o": "body", "s": "soul", "quadranym_id": 32 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 561 }, { "body": "Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.", "qode": "Confidence is the q1s_NN you have before you understand the situation.", "q1": [ { "name": "valence", "user": "scotty", "src": "psychology", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_electron", "e": "attract", "r": "avert", "o": "object", "s": "feeling", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 111 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 562 }, { "body": "Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas! ― Ben Jonson", "qode": "Confound these ancestors .... They 've stolen our q1e_JJS ideas! ― Ben Jonson", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 563 }, { "body": "Confusion must be avoided. Confusion is the enemy. Confusion is what causes bugs and security mishaps and all the other things that make us miserable. ― Douglas Crockford, during his keynote at YUIConf 2011", "qode": "Confusion must be avoided. Confusion is the enemy. Confusion is what causes bugs and security mishaps and all the q1o_JJ things that make us miserable. ― Douglas Crockford, during his keynote at YUIConf 2011", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2699 } ] }