Cryptonomicon fortune file

Cryptonomicon is an excellent novel written by Neal Stephenson. The book has a certain amount of geek-appeal, so I found it natural (while reading it the second time) to mark all quotable passages and later create a fortune collection for use on my homepage.

The collection can be downloaded by by clicking here. If you wish to use it on your own homepage, I recommend my PHP Fortune script.

Examples of the included quotes are shown on the right. Reload this page to see more. Some people may find some of the quotes mildly offensive. Please make sure to look through all the quotes before using it.

An open scroll is fixed to the top of the crucifix; it says I.N.R.I. Goto Dengo spends a long time trying to fathom this. I Need Rapid something? Initiate Nail Removal Immediately?

Dr. G.E.B. Kivistik had a couple of books out. Dr. G.E.B. Kivistik was, in short, parlaying his strongly contrarian view of the Information Superhighway into more air time than anyone who hadn't been accused of blowing up a day care center should get.

Though Colonel Chattan briefed him on proper forms of address when meeting a duke, Waterhouse can no more remember this than he can diagram the duke's family tree, so he decides to structure all of his utterances so as to avoid referring to the duke by name or pronoun. This will be a fun game and make the time go faster.