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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Mac Plus running After Dark™

1704 quotes by 574 authors in 137 categories

This collection of quotes started life in the early nineties for an After Dark™ screen saver module. The quotes had to be short enough to fit on a 9" Macintosh screen and pithy enough to warrant the trouble of typing them in.

To allow a wider distribution, a slow conversion to a text file was started (there was no easy way of exporting the quotes from After Dark) which in 1997 became this website. It was created using plain HTML which made updating a laborious process. It had a quite a bit of success but interest tapered off as there were no new additions. In 2009 the website was revamped to use a MySQL database to provide flexibility, a search option, and to slowly include new quotes found over the previous twelve years. Now twenty-seven years old and still adding new quotes.

Last five quotes added or amended

 There is none so blind as they that won't see. 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
 Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
 It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
 When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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