diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 63426728cc6..edb7e942ac9 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -322,6 +322,11 @@ into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the
 hope of greening the landscape of idea.
 		-- John Ciardi
 %
+A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever
+gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes,
+then asks the backhoe operator for directions.
+                -- Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net>
+%
 A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
 rearranging their prejudices.
 		-- William James