Q2 Quotes Database
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Updates
3/5/2009 - Quotes removed
2 quotes have been removed from the database.
7/8/2007 - Internal optimisation
The codebase has been optimised to speed up site access, and to make scripted access to this site simpler.
13/7/2007 - Some irrelevant quotes removed
20-30 quotes that relate to programming and operating systems have been removed because they probably aren't relevant to most people.
6/7/2007 - Minor correction
A minor correction has been made to the quotes database.
29/6/2007 - Theme bug fixed
A minor bug in the One theme has been fixed.
21/6/2007 - 1000 new quotes
1000+ new quotes have been added to the Q2 Quotes Database.
18/6/2007 - 900 new quotes, tweaks to site
900+ new quotes have been added to the Q2 Quotes Database. The site design and backend have been tweaked too.
11/6/2007 - Search box added
A search box has been added to each page if you're using the Simple or Bash.org themes. If you're using the Original or Lo-Fi theme then there's a Search link at the top of each page. The search results page has had a new coat of paint too.
7/6/2007 - Theme bugfix
Another bug in the theme code has been fixed. That'll teach me to test fully ;). Everything should be just fine and dandy now!
5/6/2007 - New theme, theme bugfix
The default theme has been changed from Original to Simple'n Clean, but there was a bug in the theme code that sometimes showed the new theme only on the home page, and showing the old theme on the other pages. This has been fixed. Also, there is a fresh new theme called One! Just select "One" from the drop-down above to select the new theme.
30/5/2007 - Formatting error fixed
Spaces at the beginning and end of quotes have been removed. E.g. " blah, blah, blah " -> "blah, blah, blah". The quotes in the full text have been randomly sorted again too. Also, the random quotes generater will not add a newline to the ends of quotes anymore.
The Q2 database is a collection of over 11000 funny/proverbial quotes. More...
Here's some randomly chosen quotes from the collection:
Grock: (sarcastically) Jimi Hendrix is such great morning music. Cade: Could be worse. We could be listening to Gwar or Neil Diamond.”
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards
“Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime” -- Richard Bach, “Illusions”
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” -- John Kenneth Galbraith
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” -- Oscar Wilde
AMAZING BUT TRUE ... There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert.
WARNING: Reading this fortune can affect the dimensionality of your mind, change the curvature of your spine, cause the growth of hair on your palms, and make a difference in the outcome of your favorite war.
“Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.” -- Oscar Wilde
When I look around I think this, this is good enough. And I try to laugh at whatever life brings. Cuz when I look down I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up I just trip over things. -- Ani Difranco
“200 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal.” -- Overheard on IRC by Ellie
There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.
Kiki: How have your eyes been? Have you had any problems seeing distances? Julie: I don't know. I haven't been looking.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. -- Henry David Thoreau
Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.
“The book that I want is not here. This is not where the book is that I want.” -- Jen
“What do you call a cross between a turtle and a horse? A Turtlehorse!” -- Peter S.
MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar. -- Ambrose Bierce
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. -- Samuel Butler
“Life is like a box of chocolates. If it doesn't melt early, you'll eat too many and barf.” -- Michelle Zalas, during a philosophy lecture
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance.
“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -- Franklin P. Jones
tif can't see how dishes have anything to do with human life or moral and ethical issues, unless the dishes have shreds of human flesh stuck to them.
I believe the devil and the Lord have been dancing all along. -- Dave
Oh boy, you found the marble in the oatmeal. You know what that means....you get to drink from the fire hose -- Stanley Spadowski, Uhf
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