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Fortune Cookie Files

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Introduction

These are some fortune cookie files I created 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 or could not find in the other fortune collections.

They have been converted to a custom XML grammar, but they may still contain some conversion errors, or not-entirely-semantic-markup.

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These fortunes in a tar.gz file

The Sources Files List

shlomif (XML, Plaintext) - a collection of my own quotes.
shlomif-fav (XML, Plaintext) - Favourite quotes I collected from various sources.
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 from the Joel on Software site.
nyh-sigs (XML, Plaintext) - a 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.
paul-graham (XML, Plaintext) - Quotes from the essays and writings of Paul Graham.
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.

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.

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