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#1781FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers.
-- Steven Feiner
#1782FORTRAN rots the brain.
-- John McQuillin
#1783FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly
inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is
too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
#1784[FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade.
-- T. Cheatham
#1785Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!

Try:
[Where is Jimmy Hoffa? (C shell)
^How did the^sex change operation go? (C shell)
"How would you rate BSD vs. System V?
%blow (C shell)
'thou shalt not mow thy grass at 8am' (C shell)
got a light? (C shell)
!!:Say, what do you think of margarine? (C shell)
PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense (Bourne shell)
make love
make "the perfect dry martini"
man -kisses dog (anything up to 4.3BSD)
i=Hoffa ; >$i; $i; rm $i; rm $i (Bourne shell)
#1786Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!

Try:
ar t "God"
drink < bottle; opener (Bourne Shell)
cat "food in tin cans" (all but 4.[23]BSD)
Hey UNIX! Got a match? (V6 or C shell)
mkdir matter; cat > matter (Bourne Shell)
rm God
man: Why did you get a divorce? (C shell)
date me (anything up to 4.3BSD)
make "heads or tails of all this"
who is smart
(C shell)
If I had a ) for every dollar of the national debt, what would I have?
sleep with me (anything up to 4.3BSD)
#1787fortune: cannot execute. Out of cookies.
#1788fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.
#1789fortune: No such file or directory
#1790fortune: not found
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