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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

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

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

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

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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

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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 07:38 AM
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Alex Case wrote 17 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  08:17 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  08:22 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  08:33 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  10:10 AM Korea (South)

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

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