FILM REVIEW Correction: November 4, 2004, Thursday Because of a computer malfunction, quotation marks were omitted in Weekend on Oct. 22 from a review of the political documentary "Celsius: 41.11," in a reference to an article in The Washington Post about Mansoor Ijaz, introduced in the film as a terrorism expert.
"I've never had a cannon out my window," said Birgit Rathsmann, who is making a series of abstract computer compositions incorporating quotations from the likes of Wittgenstein and Johnny Cash that will be installed on the ferry's upper deck this summer.
They pass through a metal detector, one by one, and then they are in a high-school hall like any other inner-city high-school hall: green-painted cinder block covered with posters announcing events ("Lecture This Friday: 'You and the Computer'") and quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
1964: New York Stock Exchange installs IBM computer system; automated quotations appear in 1965.
Mr. Homer said Netscape was also negotiating for sources of other content, like stock quotations and computer industry news.
From a housekeeper who stocks the refrigerator to special rooms where owners can plug into computers and check stock quotations to saunas and rooftop swimming pools with grand views of the city, a number of condominium projects, and some rental buildings as well, are offering special attractions in hopes of giving their buildings a competitive edge.
Chewing tobacco and spitting into an empty Aquafina bottle, Price sat down at his office computer, under a framed quotation from the Declaration of Independence, and pulled up a PowerPoint presentation about the world's dwindling oil reserves and the many blessings of canola.
"For this," he said of his vision of connected quotations, "the conventional computer people call me crazy, or a clown, or a pariah". Then, for a painful moment, he struggled with his computer, unable to launch a demo of his hypertext system.
There was room for argument about whether he had achieved that aim, but certainly he had made more money, after tapping market quotations into a computer plugged into his car's cigarette lighter, than any of the rest of us ever did while sitting in the Sloat parking lot.
Yahoo's problem is that while it can command high prices for advertising on some parts of its site, like its stock quotation page and computer shopping area, advertisers are willing only to pay much lower rates for others, like e-mail and weather pages.
The computer world is also rife with apocryphal quotations and lore, Mr. Shapiro said.
