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After curl-ing for a while in a loop, and sort -u:

  Anything added dilutes everything else.
  Approachable is better than simple.
  Avoid administrative distraction.
  Design for failure.
  Encourage flow.
  Favor focus over features.
  Half measures are as bad as nothing at all.
  It's not fully shipped until it's fast.
  Keep it logically awesome.
  Mind your words, they are important.
  Non-blocking is better than blocking.
  Practicality beats purity.
  Responsive is better than fast.
  Speak like a human.


Got the same list after about 100 authenticated requests: https://gist.github.com/peterjmag/6551440


You could turn these into a data file for fortune[0].

I currently use the "Cluefire and Damnation"[1] fortunes and pipe it into ponysay[2] at login.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29

[1]: http://www.cluefire.net/

[2]: https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/




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