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

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

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

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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

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'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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

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

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

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

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

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 Saturday July 05 2008

Random Quote

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 06:38 AM
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Alex Case wrote 17 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  07:17 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  07:22 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  07:33 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  09:10 AM Korea (South)

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

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