Distant Constructs



published: 2016-02-03, updated: 2021-01-15

Here are some personally curated quotes that can be used with the program fortune^[1]. Due to filetype restrictions, I cannot upload binary or compressed files. You can read the files since they are plain text, but please follow these steps if you would like to use them with fortune:

  1. Rename the file to remove the .txt extension (not strictly necessary, but makes filenames cleaner)
  2. Generate a .dat file by running strfile filename. The strfile program comes with fortune and the .dat file and the .dat is a file with pointers to each of the quotes
  3. Install by copying the both the text file and the .dat file to your fortune directory

Note that this is distributed under fair use and not CC-BY-SA.