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Cut & Paste Random Quote display
Credit: Tomer and Yehuda Shiran
Revised by George to display message in text box,
instead of alert.
Description: This script will display a random message each time a visitor visits this page.
Example: Please reload to see changes.
Directions: Simply cut and paste the whole thing into the <body> tags of your page. Be sure to change the messages, if you want.
| <form
name="random"><input type="text" name="random" size=78
value=""></form> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- // Copyright 1996 - Tomer and Yehuda Shiran // This example will appear in our forthcoming book on JavaScript. // Feel free to "steal" this code provided that you leave this notice as is. // Additional examples from the book can be found at //http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9000/ // For more information contact Tomer or Yehuda Shiran <yshiran@iil.intel.com> function getMessage() { // create array of murphy laws var ar = new Array(20) ar[0] = "Nothing is as easy as it looks." ar[1] = "Everything takes longer than you think." ar[2] = "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." ar[3] = "If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong." ar[4] = "If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then." ar[5] = "If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway." ar[6] = "If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop." ar[7] = "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse." ar[8] = "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." ar[9] = "Nature always sides with the hidden flaw." ar[10] = "Mother nature is a bitch." ar[11] = "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." ar[12] = "Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first." ar[13] = "Every solution breeds new problems." ar[14] = "Trust everybody ... then cut the cards." ar[15] = "Two wrongs are only the beginning." ar[16] = "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." ar[17] = "To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles." ar[18] = "Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget." ar[19] = "Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." var now = new Date() var sec = now.getSeconds() document.random.random.value="Murphy's Law: " + ar[sec % 20] } getMessage() //--> </SCRIPT> <p
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