Fortune Cookies

The Jargon File 4.4.7:

fortune cookie: n. [WAITS, via Unix; common] A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See cookie file.

Walter Harms hat eine Fortune Mini-HOWTO [sgml, txt] (english) geschrieben.

Sammlungen

Wer Ergänzungen oder weitere Fortune-Sprüche (gefunden) hat, der kann diese bzw. den Link dorthin einfach an schicken. Bitte keine "offensive Fortunes" sammeln oder schicken. Sollten offensive Fortunes in der Sammlung sein: Bitte mich benachrichtigen, damit ich das bereinigen kann, da ich selbst nicht alle Zitate prüfen kann.

• Best of Babelfish (Textdatei)
• Fortunes von Volker Möll (Textdatei)
• IRC-Fortunes und gesammelte Signaturen
• The Dune Series Quotes Fortunes - Quotes from Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles
• fortune-mod-futurama is a compilation of quotes from the Fox TV Series "Futurama" by Matt Groening. The quotes have been compiled from various sources on the Web.
• fortune-mod-powerpuff - Quotes taken from the Power Puff Girls series from Cartoon Network.
• fortune-mod-southpark - A whole set of quotes from "South Park" series
• The Elements of Programming Style is a fortune cookie file containing the 69 tips from the "Elements of Programming Style" by Kernighan & Plaugher.
• fortune-mod-calvin is a compilation of quotes from Bill Watterson's fantastic "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip. The quotes have been compiled from various sources on the Web.
• Infodrom Fortune Cookies: On Infodrom we collect a bunch of fortune cookies which we extract from real live conversation, usenet postings (mail and news) and IRC channels.