/* Original Author: etLux */ // ============================================== // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com // Free for all; but please leave in this header. // ============================================== var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. // To add more quotations, continue with the // pattern, adding to the array. Remember // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Quotation[0] = "\"640K ought to be enough for anybody.\"
- Bill Gates"; Quotation[1] = "\"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.\"
- H. L. Mencken"; Quotation[2] = "\"The only difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits\"
- Albert Einstein"; Quotation[3] = "\"Black holes are where God divided by zero.\"
- Steven Wright"; Quotation[4] = "\"Old C programmers never die. They are just cast to void.\"
-Unkown"; Quotation[5] = "\"Old BASIC prgrammers never die. They GOSUB and never return.\"
-Unkown"; Quotation[6] = "\"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy\"
-Albert Einstein"; Quotation[7] = "\"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater\"
-Albert Einstein"; Quotation[8] = "\"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there\"
- Charles R. Darwin"; Quotation[9] = "\"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies\"
- Oscar Wilde"; Quotation[10] ="\"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it\"
- Steven V. Thulon"; Quotation[11] ="\"That\'s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind\"
- Neil Armstrong"; Quotation[12] ="\"Act as if it were impossible to fail\"
- Dorothea Brand"; Quotation[13] ="\"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it\"
- General Douglas MacArthur"; Quotation[14] ="\"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent\"
- Sir Isaac Newton"; Quotation[15] ="\"Whoever said, \"It's not whether you win or lose that counts,\" probably lost\"
- Martina Navratilova"; Quotation[16] ="\"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is\"
- Charles Schwab"; Quotation[17] ="\"It's not the having, it's the getting\"
- Elizabeth Taylor"; Quotation[18] ="\"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it\"
- Margaret Thatcher"; Quotation[19] ="\"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it\"
- M. Scott Peck"; Quotation[20] ="\"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you\"
- Arnold Palmer"; Quotation[21] ="\"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.\"
-F. Scott Fitzgerald"; Quotation[22] ="\"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.\"
-Thomas Edison"; Quotation[23] ="\"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. \"
-Walt Disney"; Quotation[24] ="\"Try to name a true success story that involves someone giving up before the job was done. \"
-Wess Roberts"; Quotation[25] ="\"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.\"
-Joe DiMaggio"; Quotation[26] ="\"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.\"
-Zig Ziglar"; Quotation[27] ="\"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.\"
-Anthony Robbins"; Quotation[28] ="\"High expectations are the key to everything.\"
-Sam Walton"; Quotation[29] ="\"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.\"
-William Jennings Bryan"; Quotation[30] ="\"If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? \"
-Henry David Thoreau"; Quotation[31] ="\"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work. \"
-Benjamin Franklin"; Quotation[32] ="\"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.\"
-George Washington Carver"; Quotation[33] ="\"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.\"
-Abraham Lincoln"; Quotation[34] ="\"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. \"
-Bette Davis"; Quotation[35] ="\"Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.\"
-Thomas Edison"; Quotation[36] ="\"When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.\"
-Mary Kay Ash"; Quotation[37] ="\"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. \"
-Rich Cook"; Quotation[38] ="\"Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless. Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.\"
-Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary"; Quotation[39] ="\"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. \"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"; Quotation[40] = "\"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.\"
-Groucho Marx"; /** More quotes need to be added... When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -Wilson Mizner Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -Theodore Roosevelt Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -Unknown Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes. -... If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -George Bernard Shaw If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. -Joseph Snipp If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -George Carlin There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -Steven Wright Gross stupidity, falsehood, and muddled thinking are not dream; and form no escape from life to a mind trained above their own level. -H. P. Lovecraft I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -Dr. Seuss There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. -William Burroughs Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it. -Steven V. Thulon Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history. -Ben Sobel It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity. -Albert Einstein Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. -William James A man is what he thinks about all day long. -Ralph Waldo Emerson They say that time is the fire in which we burn. -Malcolm McDowell, Star Trek Generations Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. -Sandra Carey Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -Confucius The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein When considering praise or criticism first consider the source. -Jeff Daly The important thing is to not stop questioning. -Albert Einstein Wisdom begins in wonder. -Socrates We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. -Chamfort Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -Albert Einstein Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. -Mark H. McCormack Whatever you are, be a good one -Abraham Lincoln I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. -Neil Armstrong The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -Mark Twain God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. -Stephen Hawking There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. -Stephen Hawking I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. -Stephen Hawking My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. -Albert Einstein If we find the answer [the unified theory], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for we would know the mind of God. -Stephen Hawking It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. -Stephen Hawking The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? -Stephen Hawking It matters if you just don't give up. -Stephen Hawking Why be a dumbass when you can be a smartass? -Jesse Towner (aka CodeDemon) How about I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call? -Neo Two major products have come out of Berkeley; LSD and Unix, I dont believe this to be a coincidence. -Jeremy S. Anderson The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. -Morpheus You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. -Morpheus What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are . . . know you are. -Morpheus There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path. -Morpheus Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. -Unknown C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -Unknown Houston, we have a problem. -Apollo 13 Scientists revealed today that 90% of the average developer lifespan is spent downloading porn. -Cliff Bleszinski If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious sh**. -Doc from Back to the Future God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth. -Malcolm and Saddler Shall we play a game? -Joshua, Wargames Every man dies. Not every man really lives. -William Wallace To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. -Mouse (The Matrix) I am what I am. -Popeye Attitude is everything - it's your guide to life. -Anonymous A genius is only a fool that has come out of his hiding place behind incompetence. -Unknown Live your life in the present...one that forgets the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future. -Anonymous Excellence seekers are not 20% better in any one area. They are 1% better in 20 different areas. -USC Head Coach Lou Holtz Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them. -Lou Holtz I can imagine a world without hate, a world without fear, a world without war. And I can imagine us attacking that world, because they would never expect it. -Jack Handy It's a tragedy when a family is torn apart. Especially when it's done by a pack of ravenous wolves. -Unknown We've got a blind date with Destiny -- and it looks like she's ordered the lobster. -The Shoveler, Mystery Men Maybe you should put some shorts on or something, if you wanna keep fighting evil today. -The Bowler, Mystery Men You must've torn out the "Q" section in my dictionary, because I don't know the meaning of the word "quit"! -Mr. Furious, Mystery Men Oh I knew that... and I knew you'd know I'd know you knew. -Captain Amazing, Mystery Men We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering. -The Shoveler, Mystery Men Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -James Allen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle **/ // ====================================== // Do not change anything below this line // ====================================== var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write("" + Quotation[whichQuotation] + "");} showQuotation();