(WAITS, via the Unix "fortune" program) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim Selected at random from a collection (the "cookie file") and printed to the uSer' S tty at login time or (leSS commonly) at logout time. There waS a fortune program on TOPS-20. [FirSt program?] [Jargon File] (1995-02-14)