Comments on: 60 Selected Best Famous Quotes

By: Waqas

Waqas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:17 +0000

A great collection. I have been searching for such collections lately, and this one surely is the best.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:43:29 +0000

In regards to your question: So, here’s the question to my smart readers: How do you think I should go with my quotes collection? Do you have any suggestions of online services I can use and still retain my collection while making it more useful to myself and to others?

I wrote a Perl search tool you can have. I appreciate the fact that people manage their own data rather than contract out to commercial search tools, like googles, who keep track of your data for their own purposes. I think it’s important to install your own search tool on your web site, and I wrote one you can have for free at http://www.programsplus.us/uti.....index.html or it’s linked to my home page ProgramsPlus.us. It’s ready to install on your server, with all the script, and I hope the instructions I wrote will make it easy.
I made security a priority and it has successfully weathered all cracker attacks. You have a great web site and if I can be of any help installing the search tool I’d be happy to help.
Also, the Woody Allen quote: “40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Is it ‘It involves Russia’ or ‘It’s about Russia’? I think the Penquin quote book I read was the latter.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:33:51 +0000

That’s very irritating, Omar… in a good way!

By: Omar Groves

Omar Groves — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:56:04 +0000

Re advice on data retention

55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:38:31 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Chandni. I am always in the lookout of how people come up with solutions to this seemingly simple problem (which I don’t consider simple at all, even in… 2009!)

By: Chandni

Chandni — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:52:06 +0000

I know this post is more than a year old – but I have the same problem of handling my quotes.

You probably already found a solution but I use Microsoft’s One Note which is pretty efficient – check it out..

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:30:20 +0000

Hi. Your title, “60 Selected Best Famous Quotes” should read, “60 Selected Best Famous Quotations”. Quote is a verb. I quote, you quote, they quote. The thing is a quotation.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:49:37 +0000

Lots of people recommending Evernote. Although I already decided how I’m going to store my quote collection, I will check Evernote regardless for other uses I may have (or, heck, to change my mind on the quote collection decision)…

Thanks Kat and everyone for the recommendations!

By: kat

kat — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:00:45 +0000

Hi Luciano,

You can try Evernote. It has an amazing search feature, plus you can also tag your collection of quotes. That is how I organize my collection, aside from writing it down on my favorite notebook.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:27:20 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Kalyan. I do plan to update the collection every once in a while. However, I think it will be much slower than weekly or even monthly: the pace I discover new quotes worth collecting has fallen dramatically and just keeps falling…

I guess I’m becoming pickier and pickier.