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Introduction

These are collections of quotes in the UNIX fortune format which I collected, and that can be used with the UNIX fortune program. Most of the quotes here are funny, and the rest are such that I found especially enlightening, and/or could not find in the other fortune collections.

They have been converted to a custom XML-based grammar, based on XML-Grammar-Fortune .

View and Download

EPUB eBook - (free download).
These fortunes in a tar.xz file
Random fortune
Individual HTML pages for the fortune collection:
- shlomif (XML, Plaintext) - Collection of my own quotes.
- shlomif-fav (XML, Plaintext) - Favourite quotes from various sources.
- bbt (XML, Plaintext) - Quotes from the scripts of the T.V. show The Big Bang Theory.
- friends (XML, Plaintext) - Quotes from the scripts of the T.V. show Friends. They cover the first three seasons.
- joel-on-software (XML, Plaintext) - Quotes related to the Joel on Software site.
- paul-graham (XML, Plaintext) - Quotes related to the essays and writings of Paul Graham.
- nyh-sigs (XML, Plaintext) - Collection of quotes found in the signatures of Nadav Har’El, as collected using an automated script.
- osp_rules (XML, Plaintext) - “The Rules of Open-Source Programming”. Also check a discussion of it on Advogato.
- subversion (XML, Plaintext) - Excerpts from the online Subversion folklore.
- tinic (XML, Plaintext) - The ultimate collection of reasons why “there is no IGLU cabal”, and other Israeli Linux on-line folklore.
- shlomif-factoids (XML, Plaintext) - A collection of factoids about people and things (e.g: Chuck Norris).
- sharp-perl (XML, Plaintext) - A collection of conversations from Freenode’s #perl .
- sharp-programming (XML, Plaintext) - A collection of conversations from Freenode’s ##programming .
proto--shlomif-factoids.xml - the starting point XML file from which shlomif-factoids.xml is generated.
- merge_into_fortunes.py
- shlomif-factoids-lists.xml
All in One HTML Page (large).

Commentary and Disclaimer

Please report any typos or inaccuracies to me by E-mail. The quotations here are owned by their respective copyright holders, and come with no warranty of any kind.

Licence

As far as Shlomi Fish, who is collecting and maintaining these quotes, is concerned, this collection of fortune cookies is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 (CC-by-sa) Unported (or at your option any later version of that licence). However, as noted earlier, these fortune cookies were collected from various sources, many of them are not original or under incompatible or “All Rights Reserved” licences, and some of them (like the IRC conversations there) contain text by many authors. So one should take care.

If you feel any of these quotes is doing you damage, and you wish it to be removed or modified, then contact Shlomi Fish and he’ll see what he can do.

Web Feeds

RSS 2.0 feed
Atom feed for these fortunes (does not validate)

Keep track of the newest ones added using a Web-Feed Reader/Aggregator (see a list on the Wikipedia).

Credits

Fortune Cookie SVG image taken from the Open Clipart's Glitch game collection under CC0/public domain.

Navigation Blocks

Open Source / Perl / etc. Fanfiction and Essays Link
Stories and Screenplays
Human Hacking Field Guide	Front Page Conclusions and Reviews GitHub Repo
Star Trek: “We, the Living Dead”	Front Page Ongoing Text GitHub Repo
Factoids
“Facts”	Chuck Norris Facts “Knuth is not God” Larry Wall Facts NSA Facts Summer Glau Facts Taylor Swift Facts Windows Update Facts XSLT Facts
Bits
Ultra-short stories	Ways to do it According to the Programming Languages of the World GPL Not Compatible with Itself RMS Lint Cracka’s Paradise “Mastering cat” Programs Everyone Has Written COBOL — The New Age Programming Language Copying Ubuntu Bug #1 It’s not a Fooware - It’s an Operating System I'm the Real Tim Toady “Can I SCO Now?” Freecell Solver™ Enterprise Edition Freecell Solver™ Goes Webscale Freecell Solver Enterprises™ Acquires Google Inc. New Israeli Tech Usergroups GNU Will Integrate GNU Guile into GNU coreutils Announcing New Versions of the GPL Emma Watson Interviewing for a software developer job “HTML 6”, the new version of the Web The Atom text editor edits a 2,000,001 bytes file Announcing Python 4 The Princess Programmer
Quotes
Fortune Cookies (Quotes)	Main Page ##programming #perl Joel on Software Paul Graham Subversion folklore Israeli FOSS folklore GitHub Repo
Essays
Essays	Open Source, Free Software, and Other Beasts How to start contributing to FOSS FOSS Licences Wars (Revision 2) Why I Do Not Trust non-FOSS “What Makes Software High Quality?” - Revision 2 Optimising Code for Speed