quotes

quotes, a FORTRAN90 code which extracts and displays a random quotation from a file.

This can be a cheerful utility to invoke at login time. It's best used with a file of your favorite quotes, jokes, fortunes or song lyrics. To produce a quote, the program first examines a file containing a list of quote files. It selects one of these at random. Then it opens the selected quote file, and chooses a block of text at random (delimited by blank lines), and prints it.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

quotes is available in a FORTRAN90 version.

Related programs and data:

quotes_test

Source Code:

• quotes.f90, the source code;
• quotes.sh, compiles the source code;

Quote files:

• quote_files.txt, a file containing a list of the available quote files; the program needs to read this first!
• deep_thoughts.txt, Deep Thoughts;
• music_quotes.txt, Dave Moses's Music Lyric Quotes;
• my_quotes.txt, John Burkardt's Quotes of Note;
• plimpton.txt, Steve Plimpton's Sandia Quotebook;
• star_trek.txt, Star Trek Quotes;
• steven_wright.txt, Steven Wright;