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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Piracy
This is a lesson for advanced students on Internet Piracy. Using the website mentioned here, I have saved all the youtube videos to my harddrive so I don’t have to worry about lack of internet during class. I will be teaching this class today and hope it goes well. If anyone uses the lesson I would of course like to know how it goes for you.
piracy.pdf (393kb)
Enjoy
update
Too bloody difficult. It seems I’m going to have to adjust my expectations down for this class. They could do the discussions but the documentary (only 10 minutes) was too difficult even with two viewings.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Mar 23, 2007 at 07:35 AM
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