theDate= new Date(); var day = theDate.getDate(); //y2k fix by www.plebius.org var textdate = (theDate.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + theDate.getDate() + '/' + (theDate.getYear() + 0); //1900); //var textdate = day; var numquotes = 65; var day=Math.floor(Math.random()*numquotes); // var day=Math.floor(Math.random()*57); // var numquotes = 57; quotes = new Array(numquotes+1); author = new Array(numquotes+1); source = new Array(numquotes+1); quotes[0] = "Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies"; author[0] = "William Shakespeare"; source[0] = "Much Ado About Nothing"; quotes[1] = "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language"; author[1] = "Wittgenstein"; source[1] = "..."; quotes[2] = "Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hyphothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory."; author[2] = "Steven Hawking"; source[2] = "A Brief History of Time, Bantam, 1988"; quotes[3] = "Among the Venda, the feelings which even the same music arouses vary greatly from one individual to another according to their knowledge of, and interest and participation in, the social activities which the music accompanies. The music of initiation affects people according to their age and status in society. Rulers, in particular, seem to be interested more in the social than the musical aspects of the music of the domba initiation school. On one occasion, the 'musical director' of a school and I were enjoying an exhilarating and technically flawless performance of domba by eighty-eight dancers... but the chief of the district was not greatly impressed and said that it would sound better in two months' time. His appreciation of the music was conditioned by the knowledge that at least fifty more novices would join the school during that period: for him, a greater volume of sound would mean more prestige and a larger income from the novices' fee. Furthermore... the volume of sound indicates the amount of support a ruler enjoys so that comparison of the music of two political rivals can lead to a peaceful solution of a dispute. "; author[3] = "John Blacking"; source[3] = "Music, Culture and Experience, University of Chicago, 1995"; quotes[4] = "Perception has been built to detect what is right in the world - in situations of danger or opportunity a person needs to react quickly and without thinking. According to Fodor 'it is, no doubt, important to attend to the eternally beautiful and true. But it is more important not to be eaten'"; author[4] = "Steven Mithen"; source[4] = "The Prehistory of the Mind, Thames and Hudson, 1996"; quotes[5] = "Absence of evidence... is not evidence of absence "; author[5] = "William Calvin"; source[5] = "The Cerebral Code, MIT Press, 1996"; quotes[6] = "I suspect that music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at least six of our mental faculties."; author[6] = "Steven Pinker"; source[6] = "How the Mind Works, The Allen Press, 1997"; quotes[7] = "Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. "; author[7] = "Albert Camus"; source[7] = "..."; quotes[8] = "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."; author[8] = "Albert Einstein"; source[8] = "..."; quotes[9] = "...not only formalized theory, but also all other thinking or talking about music, consists of metaphors or fictions that become highly dubious or downright bogus if they are regarded as being explanatory in any scientific sense, but that are at the same time indispensable in their descriptive function."; author[9] = "Nicholas Cook"; source[9] = "Music, Imagination and Culture, 1990"; quotes[10] = "There are two remedies for the miseries of life: music and cats."; author[10] = "Albert Schweitzer"; source[10] = "..."; quotes[11] = "What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."; author[11] = "Alexander Graham Bell"; source[11] = "..."; quotes[12] = "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "; author[12] = "Aldous Huxley"; source[12] = "..."; quotes[13] = "Rap is to music as Etch-A-Sketch is to art."; author[13] = "Anonymous"; source[13] = "..."; quotes[14] = "The important thing is to be able to make predictions about images on the astronomers' photographic plates, frequencies of spectral lines, and so on, and it simply doesn't matter whether we ascribe these predictions to the physical effects of gravitational fields on the motion of planets and photons or to a curvature of space and time."; author[14] = "Steven Weinberg"; source[14] = "Gravitation and Cosmology"; quotes[15] = "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I know not."; author[15] = "St Augustine"; source[15] = "Confessions"; quotes[16] = "To put it bluntly, the reason why the common-sense theory of time is inherently mysterious is that it is inherently nonsensical. It is not just that it is factually inaccurate. We shall see that, even in its own terms, it does not make sense. This is perhaps surprising. We have become used to modifying our common sense to conform to scientific discoveries. Common sense frequently turns out to be false, even badly false. But it is unusual for common sense to be nonsense in a matter of everyday experience."; author[16] = "David Deutsch"; source[16] = "The Fabric of Reality"; quotes[17] = "Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."; author[17] = "Claude Debussy"; source[17] = "..."; quotes[18] = "Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man. "; author[18] = "Claude Levi-Strauss"; source[18] = "..."; quotes[19] = "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. "; author[19] = "George Jean Nathan"; source[19] = "..."; quotes[20] = "From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless. "; author[20] = "Hazrat Inayat Khan"; source[20] = "..."; quotes[21] = "Music is the universal language of mankind. "; author[21] = "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"; source[21] = "..."; quotes[22] = "All that takes place in nature is permeated with a mysterious music which is the earthly projection of the music of the spheres. "; author[22] = "Rudolf Steiner"; source[22] = "..."; quotes[23] = "Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. "; author[23] = "Samuel Johnson"; source[23] = "..."; quotes[24] = "Music is well said to be the speech of angels. "; author[24] = "Thomas Carlyle"; source[24] = "..."; quotes[25] = "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."; author[25] = "Albert Einstein"; source[25] = "..."; quotes[26] = "If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas...and have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis."; author[26] = "Kenneth Craik"; source[26] = "The Nature of Explanation, 1943"; quotes[27] = "We have suggested that one of the functions of consciousness is to present the result of various underlying computations and that this involves an attentional mechnanism that temporarily binds the relevant neurons together by synchronising their spikes in 40 hz oscillations."; author[27] = "Crick and Koch"; source[27] = "Quoted in Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 1990"; quotes[28] = "In other words, music propels the development, and propelled the evolution, of mind by enabling consequence-free representational redescription across domains."; author[28] = "Ian Cross"; source[28] = "Is Music the Most Important Thing We Ever Did?, 1999"; quotes[29] = "You can be moved to tears by numbers - provided they are encoded and decoded fast enough."; author[29] = "Richard Dawkins"; source[29] = "River Out of Eden, London - Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995"; quotes[30] = "Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept. Operationally we can never demonstrate that a particular observed event C caused a particular result R, although it will often be judged highly likely. What biologists in practice usually do is to establish statistically that events of class R reliably follow events of class C. They need a number of paired instances of the two classes of events in order to do so - one anecdote is not enough."; author[30] = "Richard Dawkins"; source[30] = "The Extended Phenotype, Oxford: W H Freeman, 1982"; quotes[31] = "The statement, 'genes for performing behaviour X are favoured over genes for not performing X' has a vaguely naive and unprofessional ring to it... To say 'individuals that perform X are fitter than individuals that do not perform X' sounds much more respectable... But the two sentences are exactly the equivalent in meaning. The second one says nothing that the first does not say more clearly."; author[31] = "Richard Dawkins"; source[31] = "The Extended Phenotype, Oxford - W H Freeman, 1982"; quotes[32] = "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolise. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back, they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to teh screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."; author[32] = "John Steinbeck"; source[32] = "The Grapes of Wrath, 1939"; quotes[33] = "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. But if there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself."; author[33] = "Steven Weinberg"; source[33] = "The First Three Minutes"; quotes[34] = "The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburbs of one among a hundred billion galaxies."; author[34] = "Steven Hawking"; source[34] = "..."; quotes[35] = "There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle."; author[35] = "Michael Faraday"; source[35] = "A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle"; quotes[36] = "I wonder whether the ability to see analogies, the ability to express meanings in terms of symbolic resemblances to other things, may have been the crucial software advance that propelled human brain evolution over the threshold into a co-evolutionary spiral."; author[36] = "Richard Dawkins"; source[36] = "Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998"; quotes[37] = "Remember that our man-made computer industry is a mere two or three decades old, whereas we ourselves are the products of an evolution that has operated over hundreds of millions of years"; author[37] = "Fred Hoyle"; source[37] = "Man in the Universe, New York: Columbia University Press, 1964"; quotes[38] = "It is said that Henry Ford once commissioned a survey of the car scrapyards of America to find out if there were parts of the Model T Ford which never failed. His inspectors came back with reports of almost every kind of breakdown: axles, brakes, pistons - all were liable to go wrong. But they drew attention to one notable exception, the kingpins of the scrapped cars invariably had years of life left in them. With ruthless logic Ford concluded that the kingpins on the Model T were too good for their job and ordered that in future they should be made to an inferior specification."; author[38] = "Nicholas Humphrey"; source[38] = "quoted in Dawkins, 1995"; quotes[39] = "...how little we hear, when we listen to speech, we realise when we go to a foreign theatre... for there what troubles us is not so much that we cannot understand what the actors say as that we cannot hear the words. The fact is that we hear quite as little under similar conditions at home, only our mind, being fuller of English verbal associations, supplies the requisite material for comprehension upon a much slighter auditory hint..."; author[39] = "William James, 1899"; source[39] = ""; quotes[40] = "Childhood is measured by sounds and smells
And sights, before the dark of reason grows"; author[40] = "John Betjeman"; source[40] = "Summoned by Bells"; quotes[41] = "Music is not a language; it doesn't have the task of expressing something through sounds and symbols. Music stands by itself; there's nothing beyond it."; author[41] = "Iannis Xenakis"; source[41] = "..."; quotes[42] = "When humans listen to one another speaking, read one page of print, much of what humans think they see or hear is supplied from personal memory."; author[42] = "William James"; source[42] = "1880"; quotes[43] = "When humans think seriously they think abstractly. They conjure up simplified pictures of reality called concepts, theories, models, paradigms. Without these intellectual concepts there is only one blooming, buzzing confusion."; author[43] = "P Huntingdon"; source[43] = "1993"; quotes[44] = "Have you ever taken a smash in your time? What, a big one? Will you get better again? If you see a smash coming, and you can't keep out of the way, the important thing is - don't break. Don't break!...Can you see another smash coming? How big will it be? If you see a smash coming and can't keep out of the way - don't break. Because if you do, nothing will ever put you back together again. I've taken a big one and I know. Nothing. Ever."; author[44] = "Martin Amis"; source[44] = "Other People, p66, 1981"; quotes[45] = "Every reductionist has his favourite analogy from modern science. It is most unlikely that any of these unrelated examples of successful reduction will shed light on the relation of mind to brain. But philosopers share the general human weakness for explanations of what is incomprehensible in terms suited for what is familiar and well understood, though entirely different. This has led to the acceptance of implausible accounts of the mental largely because they would permit familiar kinds of reduction."; author[45] = "Thomas Nagel"; source[45] = "The Philosophical Review, Oct 1974"; quotes[46] = "Thought experiments can be systematic, and often their implications can be rigorously deduced. Consider Galileo's crystal-clear reductio ad absurdam of the hypothesis that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. He asks us to imagine taking a heavy object, A, and a light object, B, and tying them together with a string or chain before dropping them off a tower. By hypothesis, B falls slower, and hence should act as a drag on A; thus A tied to B should fall slower than A by itself. But A tied to B is itself a new object, C, which is heavier than A, and hence, by hypothesis, C should fall faster than A by itself. A tied to B cannot at the same time fall faster than A by itself (a contradiction or absurdity), so the hypothesis must be false."; author[46] = "Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett"; source[46] = "The Mind's I, New York: Basic Books, 1981"; quotes[47] = "In our Father's house there are many mansions...and there alone will the incompatible multitudes of mankind be welcomed and soothed. Not one shall be turned away by the servants on that veranda, be he black or white, not one shall be kept standing who approaches with a loving heart. And why should the divine hospitality cease here? Consider, with all reverence, the monkeys. May there not be a mansion for the monkeys also?...he saw no reason why monkeys should not have their collateral share of bliss...And the jackals? Jackals were indeed less..., but he admitted that the mercy of God, being infinite, may well embrace all mammals. And the wasps? He became uneasy during the descent to wasps, and was apt to change the conversation. And oranges, cactuses, crystals and mud? And the bacteria inside...? No, no, this is going too far. We must exclude something from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing."; author[47] = "E.M.Forster"; source[47] = "A Passage to India, 1924"; quotes[48] = "till in the end
the day came
in the end came
close of a long day
when she said
to herself
whom else
time she stopped
time she stopped"; author[48] = "Samuel Beckett"; source[48] = "Rockaby, 1982, Faber and Faber"; quotes[49] = "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng istaht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe. "; author[49] = "-"; source[49] = "-"; quotes[50] = "We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever. The way things looked, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They've gone, and you can only wait for the pain to pass."; author[50] = "J.L.Carr"; source[50] = "A Month in the Country, 1980"; quotes[51] = "...ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong
shoo-bop sha whada whadda yippidy boom da boom chang chang changity chang shoo bop
dip da dip da dip do whap de dobby do
boogy boogy boogy boogy shooby shoo wap shoo wap chang chang changity chang shoo bop
ramma lamma lamma ka dingity ding da dong shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yippity boom da boom chang chang changity chang shoo bop yip da dip da dip shoo bop sha dooby do boogy boogy boogy boogy shooby sho wap sho wap sha na na na na na na na yippity dip da do ramma lamma lamma ka dingity ding da dong shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yippity boom sha boom chang chang changity chang shoo bop yip da dip da dip shoo bopp sha dooby do boogy boogy boogy boogy shooby sho wap sho wap sha na na na na na na na yippity dip da do a womp bop a looma a womp bam boom
womp bop a looma a womp bam boom
sha na na na na na na na yippity dip da do chang chang changity chang shoo bop..."; author[51] = "Warren Casey"; source[51] = "Grease, 1971"; quotes[52] = "This play, however, is an affirmation of life - not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and one's desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord."; author[52] = "John Cage"; source[52] = "Silence: Lectures and Writings, 1961"; quotes[53] = "I read somewhere of a shepherd who, when asked why he made, from within fairy rings, ritual observances to the moon to protect his flocks, replied: 'I'd be a damn' fool if I didn't!'
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.'"; author[53] = "Dylan Thomas"; source[53] = "Collected Poems 1934-1952 (J M Dent & Sons, London 1974)"; quotes[54] = "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."; author[54] = "Noel Coward"; source[54] = "..."; quotes[55] = "Queen Margaret of the planet Shaltoon let her gown fall to the floor. She was wearing nothing underneath. Her high, firm, uncowled bosom was proud and rosy. Her hips and thighs were like an inviting lyre of pure alabaster. They shone so whitely they might have had a light inside. 'Your travels are over, Space Wanderer,' she whispered, her voice husky with lust. 'Seek no more, for you have found. The answer is in my arms.'
'It's a glorious answer, Queen Margaret, God knows,' the Space Wanderer replied. His palms were perspiring profusely. 'I am going to accept it gratefully. But I have to tell you, if I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, that I will have to be on my way again tomorrow.'
'But you have found your answer, you have found your answer,' she cried, and she forced his head between her fragrant young breasts.
He said something she did not hear. She thrust him out at arm's length. 'What was that you said?'
'I said, Queen Margaret, that what you offer is an awfully good answer. It just doesn't happen to be the one I'm primarily looking for.'"; author[55] = "Kurt Vonnegut/Kilgore Trout"; source[55] = "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Jonathan Cape, 1965)"; quotes[56] = "Only Connect"; author[56] = "E.M.Forster"; source[56] = "Howards End (1910)"; quotes[57] = "Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind..."; author[57] = "William Shakespeare"; source[57] = "King Lear"; quotes[58] = "Listening to Lulu, in our hearth we burn,
As we hear the high Cs rise in stereo,
what was lush swamp club-moss and tree-fern
at least 300 million years ago.

Shilbottle cobbles, Alban Berg high D
lifted from a source that bears your name,
the one we hear decay, the one we see,
the fern from the foetid forest, as brief flame."; author[58] = "Tony Harrison"; source[58] = "V"; quotes[59] = "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."; author[59] = "Francis Bacon"; source[59] = "Of Beauty"; quotes[60] = "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."; author[60] = "Albert Einstein"; source[60] = "..."; quotes[61] = "There are 10 sorts of people in the world: those who understand binary - and those who do not."; author[61] = "..."; source[61] = "..."; quotes[62] = "Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence; Pete fell off, who was left? Repeat."; author[62] = "Bruce Nauman"; source[62] = "Clown Torture, 1987"; quotes[63] = "Technological determinism: the role that technologies play in determining the products of their use; the role that technologies play in determining the thoughts and actions of their users. We are delivered over to technology in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology."; author[63] = "Martin Heidegger"; source[63] = "The Question concerning Technology, 1953"; quotes[64] = "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us."; author[64] = "Marshall McLuhan"; source[64] = "Understanding Media, 1964"; document.write('' + quotes[day] + '
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