In this season's Make magazine, there is a project to create an 'artificial intelligence'. This is based on a couple loose premises. First, that proverbs are intelligent, and second, that if a computer starts spouting proverbs, it is intelligent by association.

In Make the proverb generating program was used as a method of introducing the Turing Test, but their program was lacking in a few ways. It was written in BASIC, and it tended to produce rather mixed messages. I saw that it had a wealth of hidden potential and have improved on their code. It is now on the web, uses a proper database, is interactive, and has an awesome easter egg.

Go try it out and add to it. I am curious to see what proverbs my computer starts spouting with your help.