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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™

1699 quotes by 574 authors in 136 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

 In America a hundred years is a long time, in Europe a hundred miles is a long way. 
Anonymous
 There are 1011 stars in the galaxy and that used to be a huge number, but it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers, now we should call them economical numbers. 
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
 A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body. 
Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998)
 I only drink a little but then I change into another person and that person drinks a lot. 
Anonymous
 The difference between grey and gray is that grey is a colour but gray is a color. 
Anonymous
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