function formLastMod(inDate)
{
var dm = new Date(inDate)
var outDate
var months = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December")
var thisMonth = months[dm.getMonth()]
var thisDate = dm.getDate()
var thisYear = dm.getFullYear()
outDate = " " + thisMonth + " " + thisDate + ", " + thisYear
return outDate
}
function getQOD()
{
var qod
var quotes = new Array()
quotes[0] = "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what 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.-John von Neumann (circa 1949)
"
quotes[1] = "Any suffieciently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-Arthur C. Clarke, \"Technology and the Future\"
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quotes[2] = "To do his work well, a workman must first sharpen his tools.-Chineses proverb
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quotes[3] = "Too often we forget that genius...depends upon the data withi its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.-Ernest Dimnet
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quotes[4] = "Sure as one plus one is two...-Mac Davis
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quotes[5] = "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.-Richard Bach, \"The Bridge Across Forever\"
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quotes[6] = "If you don't control your mind, someone else will.-John Allston
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quotes[7] = "Captain, I am detecting an array of holometric radiation clusters at the edge of sensor range.-Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation
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quotes[8] = "program - a set of instructions, given to the computer, describing the sequence of steps the computer performs in order to accomplish a specific task. The task must be specific, such as balancing your checkbook or editing your text. A general task, such as working for world peace, is something we can all do, but not something we can currently write programs to do.-From Unix User's Manual, Supplementary Documents
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quotes[9] = "After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.-H. L. Mencken on Shaksespeare
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quotes[10] = "I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.-Thomas Edison
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quotes[11] = "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealved only if there is a light from within.-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, \"To Live Until We Say Good-Bye\"
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quotes[12] = "And as imagination bodies forth, The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen, Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing, A local habitation and a name.-William Shakespeare, \"A Midsummer Nights Dream\"
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quotes[13] = "What is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.-George Gurdjieff
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quotes[14] = "Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.-Mason Cooley
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quotes[15] = "That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.-John A. Locke
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quotes[16] = "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.-Pablo Picasso
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quotes[17] = "Warning: Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear."
quotes[18] = "Never check for an error condition you don't know how to handle.-Anonymous
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quotes[19] = "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English-up to fifty words used in context-no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.-Carl Sagan
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quotes[20] = "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.-Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
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quotes[21] = "Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. \"You forget,\" said the the Devil, with a chuckle, \"That I have been evovling too.\"-William Ralph Inge
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quotes[22] = "Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.-Friedrich Durrenmatt, \"About Tolerance\"
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quotes[23] = "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.-Thomas B. Macaulay
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var randNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)
qod = quotes[randNum]
return qod
}