Random Quote
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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 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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
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
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
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
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)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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)
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Moving the Fence
Infrequent blogger Fencerider is moving out of Korea after 12 years. It seems like he has recieved an excellent opportunity in the UAE, something I’ve considered doing, but haven’t. Good luck and I hope you continue your blog from there.





fencerider wrote 38 words on Monday Aug 4, 2008 at 04:59 PM
certainly will...i’ll let you know how it goes via the blog when I can....
I hope to be less infrequent since i will have more personal time (not needing to work 40 hours a week to support 2.5kids)