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quotes[0]='"Macintosh- we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." - <i>Douglas Adams</i>'

quotes[1]='"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." - <i>Dennis Ritchie</i>'

quotes[2]='"Man is a tool using animal... Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all" - <i>Thomas Carlyle</i>'

quotes[3]='"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was" - <i>Unknown</i>'

quotes[4]='"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord." -Tarnaucka\'s Law</i>'

quotes[5]='"Obsolete: a feature built into all technology. It activates itself shortly after you open the box." - <i>Unknown</i>'

quotes[6]='"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home" ? Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977</i>'

quotes[7]='"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - <i>Popular Mechanics, 1949</i>'

quotes[8]='"640K ought to be enough for anybody" - <i>Bill Gates, 1981</i>'

quotes[9]='"Software is the heart and soul of a computer company." - <i>Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corp.</i>'

quotes[10]='"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked" - <i>Jeff Pesis</i>'

quotes[11]='"Any medium powerful enough to extend man\'s reach is powerful enough to topple his world. To get the medium\'s magic to work for one\'s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy." - <i>Alan Kay, Computer Software, Scientific American, Sept. 1984</i>'

quotes[12]='"When I learned computers, I stopped having to remember, because I understood how remembering is done." - <i>Dale Worley</i>'

quotes[13]='"The truth is out there. Anyone know the URL?" - <i>Unknown</i>'

quotes[14]='"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We\'ve created life in our own image." - <i>Stephen Hawking</i>'

quotes[15]='"There\'s always one more bug" - <i>Lubarsky\'s Law of Cybernetic Entomology</i>'

quotes[16]='"Where the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons." - <i>Anon., Popular Mechanics, March, 1949</i>'

quotes[17]='"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest." - <i>Isaac Asimov</i>'

quotes[18]='"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That\'s where we come in; we\'re computer professionals. We cause accidents." - <i>Nathaniel Borenstein</i>'

quotes[19]='"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - <i>Robert X Cringely</i>'

quotes[20]='"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do" - <i>B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement</i>'

quotes[21]='"Never trust a computer you can\'t throw out a window." - <i>Steve Wozniak</i>'

quotes[22]='"One thing a computer can do that most humans can\'t is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse." - <i>Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]</i>'

quotes[23]='"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord." - <i>Author Unknown</i>'

quotes[24]='"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - <i>Farmers Almanac, 1978</i></i>'

quotes[25]='"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.  - <i>Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobbs Journal</i>'

quotes[26]='"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don\'t need to be done." - <i>Andy Rooney</i>'

quotes[27]='"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose." - <i>Andy Rooney</i>'

quotes[28]='"To err is human and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - <i>Robert Orben</i>'

quotes[29]='"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it." - <i>Pierre Gallois</i>'

quotes[30]='"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear." - <i>John C. Dvorak</i>'

quotes[31]='"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." - <i>Doug Larson</i>'

quotes[32]='"Computer games don\'t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we\'d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." - <i>Marcus Brigstocke</i>'

quotes[33]='"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn\'t get bigger or heavier." - <i>Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought</i>'

quotes[34]='"Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" -Clifford Stoll</i>'

quotes[35]='"I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I\'m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I\'ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that." - <i>Steve Jobs, Playboy, September 1987</i>'

quotes[36]='"A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs." - <i>Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995</i>'

quotes[37]='"Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life." - <i>Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995</i>'

quotes[38]='"I spend almost as much time figuring out what\'s wrong with my computer as I do actually using it." - <i>Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995</i>'

quotes[39]='"What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know:  1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.  "2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them." - <i>Murphy\'s Computer Laws (Finagles Rules)</i>'

quotes[40]='"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." - <i>John Von Neumann (circa 1949)</i>'

quotes[41]='"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." - <i>Bernard Avishai</i>'

quotes[42]='"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their Macintosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp looking report." - <i>Dave Barry</i>'

quotes[43]='"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there\'s no law against whacking them around a little." - <i>Porterfield</i>'

quotes[44]='"<b>Pixel</b> - <i>n.</i>: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department." - <i>Jeff Meyer</i>'

quotes[45]='"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - <i>Weisert</i>'

quotes[46]='"The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back." - <i>Author Unknown</i>'

quotes[47]='"Never let a computer know you\'re in a hurry." - <i>Author Unknown</i>'

quotes[48]='"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don\'t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." - <i>Clifford Stoll</i>'

quotes[49]='"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." - <i>Joseph Campbell</i>'

quotes[50]='"Three things are certain: - Death, taxes, and lost data. - Guess which has occurred." - <i>David Dixon, 1998, winning entry of the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com</i>'

quotes[51]='"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching it\'s infancy." - <i>John Pierce</i>'

quotes[52]='"Chaos reigns within. - Reflect, repent, and reboot. - Order shall return. " Suzie Wagner, 1998</i>'

quotes[53]='"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it\'s done." - <i>Scott Adams</i>'

quotes[54]='"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?" - <i>Author Unknown</i>'

quotes[55]='"Don\'t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin." - <i>Robert A. Heinlein</i>'

quotes[56]='"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." - <i>One of Murphy\'s Laws of Technology</i>'

quotes[57]='"It\'s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human literacy. Computers have to become human literate." - <i>Nicholas P. Negroponte</i>'

quotes[58]='"Rebooting is a wonder drug it fixes almost everything." - <i>Garrett Hazel, Help Desk Blues, 2002</i>'

quotes[59]='"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." - <i>John F. Kennedy</i>'

quotes[60]='"RAM disk is not an installation procedure." - <i>Author Unknown</i>'

quotes[61]='"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." - <i>Marcus Dolengo</i>'

quotes[62]='"Yesterday it worked - Today it is not working - Windows is like that" - <i>Margaret Segall, 1998</i>'

quotes[63]='"Windows NT crashed. - I am the Blue Screen of Death. - No one hears your screams." - <i>Peter Rothman, 1998</i>'

quotes[64]='"There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence." - <i>Jeremy S. Anderson</i>'

quotes[65]='"There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer." - <i>J.H. Goldfuss</i>'

quotes[66]='"DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." - <i>Author Unknown</i>'

quotes[67]='"I always thought that Macs were for elitist snobs until I started dating a Mac person. After a while, I too drank the proverbial Kool-aid and made the switch, afterwhich I made the realization that I had been a Mac person all along, and had wasted ten years on a PC." - <i>Devyn Caldwell <a href="http://www.24gotham.com">(www.24gotham.com)</a></i>'

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