//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array();
authors = new Array();
quotes[0] = "The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.";
authors[0] = "<i>Julian Simon</i>";
quotes[1] = "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.";
authors[1] = "<i>Arthur C. Clarke</i>";
quotes[2] = "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.";
authors[2] = "<i>John Dewey</i>";
quotes[3] = "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.";
authors[3] = "<i>Alfred North Whitehead</i>";
quotes[4] = "Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.";
authors[4] = "<i>Peter F. Drucker</i>";
quotes[5] = "All men by nature desire to know.";
authors[5] = "<i>Aristotle</i>";
quotes[6] = "Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am&mdash;not with what we know&mdash;but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored.";
authors[6] = "<i>John H. Glenn, Jr.</i>";
quotes[7] = "The information sciences...stand out in their role as the mortar, the cementing material for the entire edifice of modern science...";
authors[7] = "<i>NSF Director Rita Colwell</i>";
quotes[8] = "Information is the currency of democracy.";
authors[8] = "<i>Thomas Jefferson</i>";
quotes[9] = "Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.";
authors[9] = "<i>Daniel Bell</i>";
quotes[10] = "Information is the oxygen of the modern age.";
authors[10] = "<i>Ronald Reagan</i>";
quotes[11] = "I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.";
authors[11] = "<i>Isaac Asimov</i>";
quotes[12] = "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.";
authors[12] = "<i>Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949</i>";
quotes[13] = "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.";
authors[13] = "<i>Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943</i>";
quotes[14] = "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.";
authors[14] = "<i>Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977</i>";
quotes[15] = "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.";
authors[15] = "<i>Anonymous, Western Union internal memo, 1876</i>";
quotes[16] = "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.";
authors[16] = "<i>Margaret Mead</i>";
quotes[17] = "Democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information.";
authors[17] = "<i>Howard Brenton</i>";
quotes[18] = "Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.";
authors[18] = "<i>John Cheever</i>";


//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);

//display the quotation
document.write("<DL>\n");
document.write("<DT>" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\"\n");
document.write("<DD>" + "&mdash;" + authors[index] + "\n");
document.write("</DL>\n");

//done