Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
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Mencken, \"Sententiae,\" The Vintage Mencken, 1955.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2564 }, { "body": "Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.", "qode": "Conscience is what hurts when q1e_NN else feels so good.", "q1": [ { "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 565 }, { "body": "Conservative, n.: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ― Leo C. Rosten", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 566 }, { "body": "Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 567 }, { "body": "\"Contrariwise,\" continued Tweedledee, \"if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!\" ― Lewis Carroll, \"Through the Looking Glass\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 11 }, { "body": "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. ― Brian W. Kernighan", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 568 }, { "body": "Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 569 }, { "body": "Conway's Law: Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.", "qode": "Conway 's Law: Any piece of software reflects the organizational q1o_NN that produced it.", "q1": [ { "name": "acton", "user": "scotty", "src": "Manfred Clynes", "area": "Neurophysiology", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Clynes", "e": "stimulant", "r": "reference", "o": "structure", "s": "function", "pos": "NN", "epos": "NN", "rpos": "NN", "opos": "NN", "spos": "NN", "realm": "Emotional", "quadranym_id": 104 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 570 }, { "body": "Corollary 1 to Berkeley's First Law of Mistakes: Always let an answer cool off for awhile―it should not be used while hot.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 436 }, { "body": "Corollary 2 to Berkeley's First Law of Mistakes: Check the answer you have worked out once more―before you tell it to anybody.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 437 }, { "body": "Coronation, n.: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown sky-high with a dynamite bomb. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 571 }, { "body": "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining q1e_JJ profit without q1e_JJ responsibility. ― Ambrose Bierce,\" The Devil 's Dictionary\"", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "partnership", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership", "e": "individual", "r": "relationship", "o": "accountability", "s": "compatability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 127 } ], "subs": "EE", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 572 }, { "body": "Corripe Cervisiam!", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 573 }, { "body": "Corrupt, adj.: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 574 }, { "body": "Corruption is not the #1 priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime. ― P.B.A. President E. J. Kiernan", "qode": "Corruption is not the# 1 priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the q1s_NN and fight crime. ― P.B.A. President E. J. Kiernan", "q1": [ { "name": "kingdom", "user": "scotty", "e": "rule", "r": "be empowered by", "o": "compliance", "s": "law", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 71 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 575 }, { "body": "Courage is grace under pressure.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 576 }, { "body": "Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 577 }, { "body": "Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. ― Wernher von Braun", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 578 }, { "body": "Creationists make it sound as though a \"theory\" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ― Isaac Asimov", "qode": "Creationists make it sound as though a\" theory\" is something you dreamt up after q1s_VBG drunk all night. ― Isaac Asimov", "q1": [ { "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": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 580 }, { "body": "\"Creation science\" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage ― good teaching ― than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise? ― Stephen Jay Gould, \"The Skeptical Inquirer\", Vol. 12, page 186", "qode": "\" Creation science\" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage ― good teaching ― than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only q1o_VBN to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise? ― Stephen Jay Gould,\" The Skeptical Inquirer\", Vol. 12, page 186", "q1": [ { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 12 }, { "body": "Creativity cannot be diminished by the medium of expression. ― Mitch Allen", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 579 }, { "body": "Creditors have better memories than debtors. ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 581 }, { "body": "Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. ― A. E. Newman", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 582 }, { "body": "Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ― Howard Scott", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 583 }, { "body": "Critical thinking is the antidote to gullibility and credulity, which explains why politicians aren't fond of critical thinking. ― Brian M. Clapper", "qode": "Critical q1r_NN is the antidote to gullibility and credulity, which explains why politicians are n't fond of critical q1r_NN. ― Brian M. Clapper", "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": "RR", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2702 }, { "body": "Critic, n.: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 584 }, { "body": "Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. ― Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 585 }, { "body": "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.", "qode": "Culture is the habit of q1s_VBG pleased with the q2e_JJS and knowing why.", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 }, { "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": "SE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 586 }, { "body": "C++ : Where friends have access to your private members. ― Gavin Russell Baker", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 505 }, { "body": "Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty q1s_NN sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic 's eyes to improve his q1s_NN. ― Ambrose Bierce,\" The Devil 's Dictionary\"", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "light", "user": "Greggo", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light", "e": "growth", "r": "decline", "o": "vision", "s": "vision", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 79 } ], "subs": "SS", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 587 }, { "body": "Cynic, n.: One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 588 }, { "body": "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward, they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ― J. W. von Goethe", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 589 }, { "body": "Dawn, n.: The time when men of reason go to bed. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "Dawn, n.: The q1n_NN when men of reason go to bed. ― Ambrose Bierce,\" The Devil 's Dictionary\"", "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": 590 }, { "body": "Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: you've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.", "qode": "Dealing with failure is easy: q1o_VB hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: you 've solved the wrong problem. q1o^VB hard to improve.", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OO", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 592 }, { "body": "Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and generally more rational than we are (or were) ― why then, the Devil take you. ― Albert Einstein, message for a time capsule", "qode": "Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and generally more q2r_JJ than we are( or were) ― why then, the Devil take you. ― Albert Einstein, message for a q1n_NN capsule", "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 }, { "name": "cognition", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition", "e": "intuition", "r": "rational", "o": "physical", "s": "psychological", "quadranym_id": 3 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2829 }, { "body": "Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 593 }, { "body": "Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. ― R. Geis", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 596 }, { "body": "Death is Nature's way of recycling human beings.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 594 }, { "body": "Death is Nature's way of saying, \"slow down\".", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 595 }, { "body": "Death: to stop sinning suddenly.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 597 }, { "body": "De Borglie rules the wave, but Heisenberg waived the rules. ― Piggins", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 591 }, { "body": "Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever. ― button at the Boston Computer Museum", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 598 }, { "body": "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are―by definition―not smart enough to debug it. ― Brian Kernighan", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 599 }, { "body": "Decisionmaker, n.: The person in your office who was unable to form a task force before the music stopped.", "qode": "Decisionmaker, n.: The person in your office who was unable to form a task q1e_NN before the music stopped.", "q1": [ { "name": "dystopian control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia", "e": "force", "r": "enslave", "o": "imperialism", "s": "oppression", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 86 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 600 }, { "body": "Decisions of the judges will be final unless shouted down by a really overwhelming majority of the crowd present. Abusive and obscene language may not be used by contestants when addressing members of the judging panel, or, conversely, by members of the judging panel when addressing contestants (unless struck by a boomerang). ― Mudgeeraba Creek Emu-Riding and Boomerang-Throwing Association", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 601 }, { "body": "Decisions terminate panic.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 602 }, { "body": "\"Deep\" is a word like \"theory\" or \"semantic\" ― it implies all sorts of marvelous things. It's one thing to be able to say \"I've got a theory\", quite another to say \"I've got a semantic theory\", but, ah, those who can claim \"I've got a deep semantic theory\", they are truly blessed. ― Randy Davis", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 13 }, { "body": "Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 603 }, { "body": "\"Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.\"", "qode": "\" Deliver yesterday, code today, q1r_VB tomorrow.\"", "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 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 14 }, { "body": "Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. ― Senator Soaper", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 604 }, { "body": "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ― G. B. Shaw", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 605 }, { "body": "Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. ― H. L. Mencken", "qode": "Democracy is also a form of q1e_NN. It is the q1e_NN of Jackals by Jackasses. ― H. L. Mencken", "q1": [ { "name": "religious control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_birth_control", "e": "worship", "r": "ascend", "o": "unity", "s": "sin", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 88 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EE", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2565 }, { "body": "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ― H. L. Mencken", "qode": "Democracy is a pathetic q3o_NN in the collective q2o_NN of q1e_JJ ignorance. ― H. L. Mencken", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 }, { "name": "Dickensian times", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "light", "r": "darkness", "o": "belief", "s": "incredulity", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 130 }, { "name": "partnership", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership", "e": "individual", "r": "relationship", "o": "accountability", "s": "compatability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 127 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OOE", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 2566 }, { "body": "Democracy is four wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 606 }, { "body": "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ― E. B. White", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 607 }, { "body": "Denniston's Law: Virtue is its own punishment.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 608 }, { "body": "Deprivation is the mother of poetry. ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2874 }, { "body": "Deprive a mirror of its silver, and even the Czar won't see his face.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 609 }, { "body": "Der Unterschied zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn liegt nur im Erfolg. [The only difference between genius and insanity is the success.]", "qode": "Der Unterschied zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn liegt nur i m Erfolg.[ The only difference q1o_IN genius and insanity is the success.]", "q1": [ { "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 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 610 }, { "body": "Did I forget to mention, forget to mention Memphis? Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks. Do I smell? I smell home cooking. It's only the river, it's only the river. ― Talking Heads (Cities)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 611 }, { "body": "Did you know gullible is not in the dictionary?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 612 }, { "body": "\"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.\" ― John Barrymore's dying words", "qode": "\" Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.\" ― John Barrymore 's dying q1r_NNS", "q1": [ { "name": "grounding", "user": "scotty", "src": "Deb Roy", "e": "sensing", "r": "words", "o": "speech", "s": "motor action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 54 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 15 }, { "body": "...difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a common censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. ― Thomas Jefferson, \"Notes on Virginia\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 125 }, { "body": "Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 613 }, { "body": "Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build: They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard. Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more states than computers do. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 614 }, { "body": "Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 615 }, { "body": "Diplomacy is the art of extricating oneself from a situation that tact would have prevented in the first place.", "qode": "Diplomacy is the q1r_NN of extricating oneself from a situation that tact would have prevented in the first place.", "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": 616 }, { "body": "Diplomacy is the art of saying \"nice doggy\" until you can find a rock.", "qode": "Diplomacy is the q1r_NN of saying\" nice doggy\" until you can find a rock.", "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": 617 }, { "body": "Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 619 }, { "body": "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. ― Albert Szent-Gyorgi", "qode": "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and q1r_VBG what no one else has thought. ― Albert Szent- Gyorgi", "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": 620 }, { "body": "Disc space ― the final frontier!", "qode": "Disc q1n_NN ― the final frontier!", "q1": [ { "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 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 618 }, { "body": "Distress, n.: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 621 }, { "body": "Dobbin's Law: When in doubt, use a bigger hammer.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 638 }, { "body": "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. ― Dick Brandon", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 630 }, { "body": "Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.", "qode": "Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers q1r_VBP it so much.", "q1": [ { "name": "humanity", "user": "dane", "e": "love", "r": "hate", "o": "apathy", "s": "sympathy", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 109 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 631 }, { "body": "Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ― Ansel Adams", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2734 }, { "body": "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book IV", "qode": "Do not act as if you were going to q1e_VB ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you q1e_VBP, while it is in your power, be good. ― Marcus Aurelius,\" The Meditations\", Book IV", "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": "EE", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2611 }, { "body": "Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missle defense systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a far greater risk to our environment and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or accidents at nuclear power stations. ― C. A. R. Hoare", "qode": "Do not allow this language( Ada) in its q2s_JJ state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti- ballistic missle defense systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language error may not be an exploratory q1n_NN rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a q3e_RB greater risk to our environment and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or accidents at nuclear power stations. ― C. A. R. Hoare", "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": "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 }, { "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 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SNE", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 622 }, { "body": "Do not clog intellect's sluices with bits of knowledge of questionable uses.", "qode": "Do not clog intellect 's sluices with bits of q1o_NN of questionable uses.", "q1": [ { "name": "epistemology", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology", "e": "extent", "r": "validity", "o": "knowledge", "s": "presuppositions", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 96 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 624 }, { "body": "Do not compromise yourself; you are all you have got. ― Janis Joplin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 625 }, { "body": "Do not merely believe in miracles, rely on them.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 623 }, { "body": "\"Do not stop to ask what is it; Let us go and make our visit.\" ― T. S. Eliot, \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 16 }, { "body": "Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.", "qode": "Do not take q1n_NN too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 626 }, { "body": "Do not try to solve all life's problems at once ― learn to dread each day as it comes. ― Donald Kaul", "qode": "Do not try to solve all life 's problems at once ― q1n_VB to dread each day as it comes. ― Donald Kaul", "q1": [ { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 627 }, { "body": "Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging. Don't have aesthetic convulsions when using them, either.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 628 }, { "body": "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2842 }, { "body": "Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.", "qode": "Do n't believe q1e_NN you hear or anything you say.", "q1": [ { "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 633 }, { "body": "Don't be overly suspicious where it's not warranted.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 632 }, { "body": "Don't comment bad code: rewrite it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 634 }, { "body": "Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 635 }, { "body": "Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 636 }, { "body": "Don't diddle code to make it faster, find a better algorithm.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 637 }, { "body": "Don't eat yellow snow. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "Do n't q1r_VB yellow snow. ― Frank Zappa", "q1": [ { "name": "egg_food", "user": "dane", "e": "cuisine", "r": "eat", "o": "sustenance", "s": "taste", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 121 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2660 }, { "body": "Don't get suckered in by the comments ― they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code. ― Dave Storer", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 639 }, { "body": "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2742 }, { "body": "Don't knock President Fillmore. He kept us out of Vietnam.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 640 }, { "body": "Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.", "qode": "Do n't q1n_VB the tricks of the trade, q1n_VB the trade.", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "subs": "NN", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 641 }, { "body": "\"Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.\" ― Bo Diddley", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 18 }, { "body": "Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. ― Bo Diddley", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 642 } ] }