function StringArray (n) { this.length = n; for (var i =1; i <= n; i++) { this[i] = ' ' } } quote = new StringArray(35) quote[0] = "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." quote[1] = "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." quote[2] = "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." quote[3] = "Businessmen are the symbol of a free society." quote[4] = "Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. " quote[5] = "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." quote[6] = "If a man does his best, what else is there?" quote[7] = "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." quote[8] = "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." quote[9] = "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." quote[10] = "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." quote[11] = "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." quote[12] = "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." quote[13] = "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." quote[14] = "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." quote[15] = "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." quote[16] = "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." quote[17] = "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." quote[18] = "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." quote[19] = "Facts are the enemy of truth." quote[20] = "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." quote[21] = "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." quote[22] = "The mistakes are all waiting to be made." quote[23] = "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." quote[24] = "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." quote[25] = "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." quote[26] = "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." quote[27] = "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." quote[28] = "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." quote[29] = "Logic is in the eye of the logician." quote[30] = "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." quote[31] = "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." quote[32] = "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." quote[33] = "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." quote[34] = "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." quote[35] = "The cynics are right nine times out of ten." author = new StringArray(35) author[0] = "Henry Ford" author[1] = "Jonathan Swift" author[2] = "Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) " author[3] = "Ayn Rand" author[4] = "Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994" author[5] = "Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)" author[6] = "General George S. Patton (1885-1945)" author[7] = "Albert Einstein (1879-1955)" author[8] = "Albert Einstein (1879-1955)" author[9] = "Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut" author[10] = "Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)" author[11] = "Rene Descartes (1596-1650)" author[12] = "Henry Ford (1863-1947)" author[13] = "Paul Erdos" author[14] = "George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)" author[15] = "Edsgar Dijkstra" author[16] = "Bjarne Stroustrup" author[17] = "H. G. Wells (1866-1946)" author[18] = "Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)" author[19] = "Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha" author[20] = "Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)" author[21] = "Albert Einstein (1879-1955)" author[22] = "chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)" author[23] = "Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)" author[24] = "Albert Einstein (1879-1955)" author[25] = "Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)" author[26] = "H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)" author[27] = "Albert Einstein (1879-1955)" author[28] = "Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)" author[29] = "Gloria Steinem" author[30] = "Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)" author[31] = "Goethe (1749-1832)" author[32] = "Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)" author[33] = "Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)" author[34] = "Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)" author[35] = "Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)" function writeQuote() { var now = new Date() var sec = now.getSeconds() var core = sec % quote.length var thequote = quote[core] var theauthor = author[core] var theq = '"' var theend = '' document.write( '' + theq + thequote + theq + " " + theauthor + '' ) }