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Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

"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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

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 Saturday July 05 2008

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The random quote at the top of the page has been upgraded to automatically cycle through 25 random quotes from the database on each page load. I attempted to do the javascript myself, failed, but received some help from the EE forums so now its working. If your browser has javascript turned off the layout of the page will be broken, but everything will still be readable.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Jul 5, 2008 at 07:38 AM
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Alex Case wrote 17 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  08:17 AM Japan

It’s going over the top of the post below for me, but could well be my fault!

Sean.

Sean. wrote 17 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  08:22 AM Korea (South)

Alex,
what browser and operating system are you using? looks fine in firefox/opera/ie7 on vista to me.

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Alex Case wrote 64 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  08:33 AM Japan

IE don’t know which edition with Windows whatever the one before Vista was called

As a blogger, I really should know more about computers…

It’s only with the longer quotes, if they are over a line and a half they go over the title of the post just below, and some of the really long ones go over the first line of the post

Sean.

Sean. wrote 14 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  10:10 AM Korea (South)

Alex,
thanks for the heads up - will take a look at that soon.

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