Random Quote
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Blogging Toolbox
Via Aaron comes the Blogging Toolbox, a collection of 120+ resources for bloggers. I was also led to the RSS toolbox on the same site.
These lists are fairly comprehensive and will definitely aid me in selecting the right links for students to use when setting up blogs and social networks over the next three weeks.




