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function get_random(maxNum)
{
  if (Math.random && Math.round)
  {
    var ranNum= Math.round(Math.random()*(maxNum-1));
    ranNum+=1;
    return ranNum;
  }
  else
  {
  today= new Date();
  hours= today.getHours();
  mins=   today.getMinutes();
  secn=  today.getSeconds();
  if (hours==19)
   hours=18;
  var ranNum= (((hours+1)*(mins+1)*secn)%maxNum)+1;
  return ranNum;
  }
}
function getaQuote()
{
 var maxQuotes=30;
 var whichQuote=get_random(maxQuotes);
 whichQuote--;
var quote=new Array(maxQuotes)
  quote[0]="God made the integers\; all the rest is the work of Man.<br><b>L. Kronecker</b>";
  quote[1]="Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.<br><b>Stan Augarten</b>";
  quote[2]="Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.<br><b>Charles Babbage</b>";
  quote[3]="The first non\-absolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved.<br><b>D. Adams</b>";
  quote[4]="Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.<br><b>Ren\&eacute\; Descartes</b>";
  quote[5]="Economists are people who work with numbers but don\'t have the personality to be accountants.<br><b>Unknown author</b>";
  quote[6]="The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. The right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.<br><b>Arthur Miller</b>";
  quote[7]="It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.<br><b>Aristotle</b>";
  quote[8]="Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.<br><b>Galileo Galilei</b>";
  quote[9]="Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn\'t looked at the stock market pages.<br><b>Irene Peter</b>";
  quote[10]="I am ill at these numbers.<br><b>William Shakespeare</b>";
  quote[11]="When One made love to Zero, spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath.<br><b>Raymond Queneau</b>";
  quote[12]="Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.<br><b>Leonhard Euler</b>";
  quote[13]="I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them.<br><b>Mark Haddon</b>";
  quote[14]="It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.<br><b>George Boole</b>";
  quote[15]="To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.<br><b>Paul Klee</b>";
  quote[16]="When a mathematician writes a Fantasy book, will the page numbers be imaginary numbers?.<br><b>Eike Michaelis</b>";
  quote[17]="In the van Dale dictionary (the Dutch version of Websters) we found: A prime number is a number that is only divisible by itself. Apparently, we only have one prime number in the Netherlands...";
  quote[18]="You know what seems odd to me\? Numbers that aren\'t divisible by two.<br><b>Michael Wolf</b>";
  quote[19]="It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger than the previous record.";
  quote[20]="Sometimes it is useful to know how large your Zero is.<br><b>Unknown author</b>";
  quote[21]="Geometry is not true; it is advantageous.<br><b>Henri Poincar\&eacute\;</b>";
  quote[22]="An idea, which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.<br><b>Gabor Szego</b>";
  quote[23]="The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again...";
  quote[24]="One person\'s <u>constant</u> is another person\'s <u>variable</u>.<br><b>Susan Gerhart</b>";
  quote[25]="Circles to square and cubes to double would give a man excessive trouble.<br><b>Matthew Prior</b>";
  quote[26]="There are 10 types of people in the world\: those who understand binary, and those who don\'t.<br><b>Unknown author</b>";
  quote[27]="The shortest distance between two points is under construction.<br><b>Bill Sanderson</b>";
  quote[28]="Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.<br><b>Steven Wright</b>";
  quote[29]="Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.<br><b>Norman Cousins</b>";
  quote[30]="In Alaska, where it gets very cold, pi is only 3.00. As you know, everything shrinks in the cold. They call it Eskimo-pi.";
document.write(quote[whichQuote]);
}
getaQuote();
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