function displayRandomQuote()
		{
			//store the quotations in arrays
			quotes = new Array();
			authors = new Array();
			
			quotes[0] 	= "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons,"
					+ " computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons";
			authors[0] 	= "Popular Mechanics - March 1949";
			
			quotes[1] 	= "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there\'s no law"
					+ " against whacking them around a little";
			authors[1] 	= "Joe Martin";
			
			quotes[2] 	= "In all large corporation, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun"
					+ " with a computer on company time"
					+ "<br>Networks help alleviate that fear";
			authors[2] 	= "John C. Dvorak";
			
			quotes[3] 	= "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple";
			authors[3] 	= "Oscar Wilde";
			
			quotes[4] 	= "Why is it that drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called \'users\'?";
			authors[4] 	= "Clifford Stoll";
			
			quotes[5] 	= "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put";
			authors[5] 	= "Sir Winston Churchill ";
			
			quotes[6] 	= "Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing";
			authors[6] 	= "Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 ~ 1983)";
			
			quotes[7] 	= "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living"
					+ "<br>After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four";
			authors[7] 	= "Katherine Hepburn (1907 ~ 2003)";
			
			quotes[8] 	= "I do not fear computers"
					+ "<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;I fear the lack of them";
			authors[8] 	= "Isaac Asimov (1920 ~ 1992)";
			
			quotes[9] 	= "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something competely foolproof "
					+ " is to underestimate the ingenuity of compete fools";
			authors[9] 	= "Douglas Adams (1952 ~ 2001) Mostly Harmless";
			
			quotes[10] 	= "The best way to predict the future is to invent it";
			authors[10] 	= "Alan Kay";
			
			quotes[11] 	= "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe"
						+ " is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more"
						+ " bizarre and inexplicable"
						+ "<br><br> "
						+ " There is another theory which states that this has already happened.";
			authors[11] 	= "Douglas Adams (1952 ~ 2001)";
			
			quotes[12] 	= "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time";
			authors[12] 	= "Bertrand Russell (1872 ~ 1970)";
			
			quotes[13] 	= "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics"
						+ " are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts";
			authors[13] 	= "Bertrand Russell (1872 ~ 1970)";
			
			quotes[14] 	= "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to"
						+ " build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce"
						+ " bigger and better idiots"
						+ "<br><br>So far, the Universe is winning";
			authors[14] 	= "Rick Cook";
			
			quotes[15] 	= "I am not you enough to know everything";
			authors[15] 	= "Oscar Wilde";
			
			quotes[16] 	= "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong"
						+ " is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible"
						+ " to get at or repair";
			authors[16] 	= "Douglas Adams (1952 ~ 2001)";
			
			quotes[17] 	= "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he\'s buying";
			authors[17] 	= "Fran Lebowitz";
			
			quotes[18] 	= "The cure for boredom is curiosity"
						+ "<br/>There is no cure for curiosity";
			authors[18] 	= "Dorothy Parker";
			
			
			quotes[19] 	= "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. "
						+ "<br>They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we";
			authors[19] 	= "George W. Bush";
			
			quotes[20] 	= "First of all, I would like to make one thing perfectly clear. I never explain anything";
			authors[20] 	= "Mary Poppins";
			
			quotes[21] 	= "The solution to Iraq  - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself  - is more than a military mission."
						+ " Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad";
			authors[21] 	= "George W. Bush";
			
			quotes[22] 	= " I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we\'re really talking about peace";
			authors[22] 	= "George W. Bush";
			
			quotes[23] 	= "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life"
						+ " is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.";
			authors[23] 	= "John F. Kennedy";
			
			quotes[23] 	= " I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint,"
						+ " its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose";
			authors[23] 	= "John F. Kennedy";
		
			quotes[24] 	= "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of"
						+ " social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.";
			authors[24] 	= "Martin Luther King, Jr.";
		
			quotes[25] 	= "Our military forces are an arm of government, just like the Department of Social Welfare, although"
						+ " probably less able to inflict widespread harm";
			authors[25] 	= "David Lange";


/*
		
			quotes[X] 	= "xxxQUOTExxx";
			authors[X] 	= "xxxAUTHORxxx";
			
*/
			//calculate a random index
			index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);
			
			//display the quotation
			document.write('<br><div class="randomQuote"><h2>random quote<\/h2><p class="quotation">' + quotes[index] + '<\/p><p class="author">' + authors[index] + '<\/p><\/div>');
			
			//done
		}