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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

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

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

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 Sunday August 14 2005

New Words

Oxford Dictionary has added some new words. I’ve quoted some of the words that I like as additions below. It’s interesting to see a couple of words that were added to the dictionary relatively quickly like podcast and wiki. I’d never heard of a podcast before January of this year and wikis to me are only about 3 maybe 4 years old.

On the other end of things I’m surprised that it took so long for fanboy to make to the dictionary - I’ve been using this word at least since the late 80’s. Enjoy the list and a hat tip to Dan Mitchell.


clueful
• adjective informal having knowledge or understanding of something; well informed: clueful helpline operators.

fanboy
• noun informal a male fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, music, film, or science fiction.

greige
• noun [mass noun] a colour between beige and grey.
— origin blend of grey and beige, perhaps influenced by French grège ‘raw (silk)’.

Hinglish
• noun [mass noun] informal a blend of Hindi and English, in particular a variety of English used by speakers of Hindi, characterized by frequent use of Hindi vocabulary or constructions.

overdog
• noun informal a person who is successful or dominant in their field.

podcast
• noun a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar programme, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player.
— derivatives
podcasting noun.
— origin early 21st century: from iPod, a proprietary name for a personal audio player.

supersize
• adjective larger than average or standard sizes; extremely large.
• verb [with obj.] [often as adj.] (supersized) greatly increase the size of: supersized suitcases on wheels.

wiki
• noun a website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content.
— origin from WikiWikiWeb (1995), coined by the US programmer Ward Cunningham (b.1949), from Hawaiian wiki wiki ‘very quick’, reduplication of wiki ‘quick’.


Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Aug 14, 2005 at 07:33 AM
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