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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
To Bombinate
My other web site has a word a day and I noticed that today was bombinate and I just had to know what this means. I like this word - it sounds so ominous. My computer is bombinating and I’m not sure what I should do!bombinate BOM-buh-nayt, intransitive verb:
To buzz; to hum; to drone.





Rethabile Masilo wrote 34 words on Wednesday Feb 11, 2004 at 08:40 AM
“Bombinate,” huh? It is a nice-sounding word. The only worry is if you hadn’t told me what it meant, I’d have thought that “bombinate” was what the U.S. army did in Afghanistan and Iraq!
Mike Arnzen wrote 30 words on Sunday Feb 15, 2004 at 01:28 PM
Thanks for sharing this word! It’s new to me; but I wonder if it’s related to “abombinate” (as in “abombinable"). I laughed at your point that your computer is bombinating!