Random Quote
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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---- Steve Dembo
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Foreigners can join a union (Taiwan)
It seems that it is now legal for foreigners, in Taiwan, to:
take up positions as directors or supervisors of labor unions. The rules, when ratified by the lawmakers, will also permit teachers to organize labor unions.
I would love to see this in Korea but it has yet to happen.
Hat tip to Mark




