Random Quote
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
"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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Krashen on “English Villages”
In THe Taipei Times Dr. Stephen Krashen talks about the English Villages in Korea. Krashens letter is short, but also very good. I highly recommend reading it. I have previously discussed English Villages here and here.
Hat tip to Scott Sommers.




