That's a lot of infrastructure to build for a minor gain. Although I do like the idea of singling out a phrase here or there.

chromatic has a wonderful quote on his homenode (*) he lifted from a thread years ago, from a monk who hasn't been here in a long time. If you've never heard of "And the map is posted at nearly every major street corner", it makes no sense, shorn of its context. But once you've read the thread, I think you'll agree that it's one of the most poignant statements ever made about helping newbies.

And in turn I've lifted a quote from chromatic, in a reply to dws in this thread, because I liked the attention to detail it represents. Attention that, sadly, the programmers I work with lack. Similarly, to understand "it is a most inspired beverage", you have to know your Perlmonks polls.

So in the meantime, rather than writing all that code to pin down these saying, I would suggest you simply stash them away in your homenode. If you can keep it up, and bring the total to a hundred, then yes, that might make decent seed material to get the thing off the ground.

Otherwise I fear it would just turn into a mutual self-congratulatory society.

* thanks BrowserUK for clarifying matters. I wrongly assumed it was evident that one was to click on chromatic's link and visit his homenode

For anyone intrigued by the "And the map..." quote, it can be found here in its original context, since finding it requires searching 95% of the PM database.

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In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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And in turn I've lifted a quote from chromatic, in a reply to dws in this thread, because I liked the attention to detail it represents. Attention that, sadly, the programmers I work with lack. Similarly, to understand "it is a most inspired beverage", you have to know your Perlmonks polls.

I lift up quotes from the newsgroups (most notably from clpmisc) I read all the time, slightly more rarely from mailing lists and web forums (most notably this one): they end up in my collection of .sigs, although the latter mixes Perl stuff with much about anything else...

This is really two different projects: (1) Developing a database of quotations, (2) Displaying or using them in one particular way or another. The interesting (challenging) project is #1. And it's one for which PerlMonks is not particularly well suited, unless one person were to take on the role of collector, and use his/her homenode/scratchpad for it. As for the second part, I concur with grinder: it's way too complicated, for too little benefit. (See related discussion in this subthread.)

On the other hand, if you can provide your collected sayings in fortune format, you could use a program such as my fortune page to display selections from it, e.g. in an iframe.

<iframe src="http://jdporter.perlmonk.org/fortune.cgi?source=http://jd
+porter.perlmonk.org/custom-fortune/mjd"></iframe>
[download]

iframe is not an approved tag. It only works on home nodes for viewers who haven't elected to filter the HTML of home nodes (and so is mostly doomed to stop working -- it presenting a risk of cross-site scripting).

- tye        

For the Free Nodelet, of course. E.g. in a way related to what I described here.

We're building the house of the future together.

I suggest this site might benefit from a form for nominating "Pearls of Wisdom".

In a way some of hte Monks' homenodes already immortalize the pithy things that Monks have to say both in CB and in nodes. For instance on my own homenode I put up a table explaining some of the abbreviations I use.

Ohter folks have on their homenodes quotes from CB that they thought should be immortalized.

As for me, I find this enough of a incentive to surf homenodes and check out what folks have found fitting to put there.