GUIquotes Links
Other quote files
Sources for other quote files to use with GUIquotes.
- Jar of Fortune Files - an archive of various fortune files. Some but not all of the fortune files are formatted for use with GUIquotes.
- Wiki fortunes archive - a wiki containing many of the original Unix fortunes. Copy the quotes to a text editor and save as a text file.
- Shlomi Fishs Fortune Cookie Files - an assortment of quote files. Save the Plaintext file to use with GUIquotes.
Other quote programs
One size does not fit all so if GUIquotes does not fit your needs here are some others to look at.
- Fortune 4 all - Windows program for displaying Unix fortunes. Can be compiled for other OSes.
- PopUp Wisdom - Windows program for displaying quotes. It is fortune file format compatible.
- Cocoa Fortune X - Mac command line program for displaying Unix fortunes.
- iFortune - Mac Cocoa wrapper for displaying Unix fortunes.
- PyFortune - A Python fortune program for Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
- Python fortune - Another Python based fortune program.
- My Unix Fortune - iPhone and iPad app which displays Unix fortunes.
- Message of the day Widget - Android widget which displays Unix fortunes.
- PHP-fortune - PHP script for displaying a quote on a webpage. This is used for displaying TV show quotes in the Episode Guide part of this website.
- TheySaidSo - provides a way (api for those that know what that means) for displaying a quote on a webpage. Also has plugins for displaying quotes on Wordpress and Joomla sites.
Websites displaying quotes
These websites will display quotes by category or/and randomly.
- Wikiquote - quote compendium that anyone can edit. Where many of the quotes on this website came from.
- Motd - Message of the Day - has most of the Unix fortunes to display quotes from.
- Quotation Collections - displays quotes from a number of collections.
- The Quotations Page - claims to be the oldest quotation site on the Web. Has a large collection of quotes.
Miscellaneous
Other links related to GUIquotes or the making of this website
- Wikipedia Unix fortune entry - information on the fortune program which GUIquotes is based on.
- Java Wikipedia entry - information on the Java programming language the GUIquotes program runs on.
- This website's technology - I created a static website generator boilerplate to use for making this website. The readme on the GitHub repository has details on the various things the boilerplate contains. The source code of the boilerplate is available for viewing or download.