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Lighten your olives?

October 21st, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Site News

While we try to keep this site as accurate as possible, we do find an error from time to time. For example, what’s wrong with the following quote?

Thanks to one of our readers, Cory, for sending in that correction. While they’re not usually as inadvertently funny as that one, we greatly appreciate your letting us know when you find an error. Just click on a quote to get to its page, then click the Send us a comment link. Thanks again to all of you out there who have helped lighten our olives make the site better!

My favorite quotations: Stanislaw J. Lec

September 19th, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Site News

Every now and then someone emails me to tell me that I’ve misspelled Stanislaw Lem’s name as “Stanislaw Lec”, or vice versa. While we did make this mistake long ago, our quotations are now correct, but the confusing thing is that they are two different people:

  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909-1966) was a Polish poet and writer. He is best known for his book of aphorisms, Unkempt Thoughts.
  • Stanislaw Lem (b. 1921) is a polish writer of science fiction, best known for Solaris.

Now that we’ve got that straightened out, continuing the my favorite quotations series, here are some of my favorite quotes from Stanislaw J. Lec.

Site updates: more quotes, new subjects

September 9th, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Site News

I’m working on some major updates to The Quotations Page. In the meantime, we continue to add quotations. We now have a total of 23,496 quotations by 2713 authors.

We’ve also added some new subjects to our index recently:

Here are some of the quotations added in the last week or two.

Site Updates

August 12th, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Site News

We’re always making changes to this site, although most of them are behind the scenes. I’ll be posting updates here regularly to let you know what we’re doing with the site. Here are the updates from the last week or so:

  • We’ve added two new subjects to our index: discovery and planning.

  • We’ve added 85 quotations, bringing our total up to 23,420. Here are a few selections from the most recently added quotes:

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

Add this site to your Firefox toolbar

July 22nd, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Site News

Toolbar If you use Firefox as your browser, there’s an easy way to search for quotations. Click this button to add The Quotations Page as one of the search options in the toolbar:

After you click the button and answer OK to the confirmation dialog, you’ll find The Quotations Page in the drop-down list of search icons in the toolbar. Select it, type a keyword or name to search for, and press Enter to go straight to the search results.

Thanks to Alan Bramley for writing this plug-in. There are hundreds of other search plug-ins you might find useful at the mozdev.org search plugins page.


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