BlitzBasic Quotes Page!

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Most recently stated by Andy:

It's sad that we don't have a 'famous quotes' page here on blitzbasic.com...

Finally we do!
Well, a link to one, anyway... and it's up 60% of the time, which is pretty good!

I took the last 25 minutes to make a really stupid BlitzBasic user quotes page!

http://crumbsoftware.f2o.org/bbQuotes/index.php

It's a bit basic right now, but I may improve it if I end up with nothing better to do, or in the other cirumstance hinted at in my little blurb.

Have fun, and tell me if anything is broken.
It's already too late to fix, though, because it's the most appalling bit of PHP ever written. (eg: Don't enter URLs unless you're copying and pasting straight from your browser, and I wouldn't use quote marks if I was you, because I forgot to test those in the latest version.)

Please be careful; the only way to fix this precarious thing if someone breaks it is to delete all of the content. (I was too lazy to just merge it with my regular web admin stuff).

Now, let's round up some famous quotes to fill this thing up.
...For example, the famous "it's not a bug, it's a feature!", and other such weird things such as the one that inspired Andy to suggest this (the sicko...).

Grey Alien

it loads too slowly, I got bored waiting. Seems like a good idea though.

Grey Alien

hmm next time it loaded straight away, weird. Do you remember that quote from a while back about the person that couldn't climb the ladder in half life 2, it was well funny.

GfK

I don't see many people bothering with this if the whole thing can just get wiped out by an innocent 'accident'.

Try http://www.bash.org, but not if you're under age, because there is swearing there.

Dubious Drewski

What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?"
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
Richard continued, "What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself.

Douglas Adams

Add that one.

Muzzer

Great way to brown-nose people you admire.

Would it be wrong to quote yourself?

puki

Yeh, this is prone to abuse.

Nilium

Would it be wrong to quote yourself?

Guy A: "A great man once said 'it is stupid to quote oneself.'"
Guy B: "Who said that?"
Guy A: "I did."

Grey Alien

Here's a good one which applies to this community:

John Myers(from Hellboy): "What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he finishes them."

Nilium

#10

I think this is more for humorous quotes, not thought provoking profound ones.

Picklesworth

#11

Yay, I can actually remove information, now that it is seperated by spaces in the appalling mess that I dare to call PHP. Hey, a file system is a database, is it not?

Not that it matters, since my interest in that page will last for about another day at most.

About the khaaan.com link... I make it a personal goal to link to that everywhere I can.