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You said it!

You said it!. Richard Ponton FETC 2006. The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the Future. ~Jessamyn West.

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You said it!

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  1. You said it! Richard Ponton FETC 2006

  2. The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the Future. ~Jessamyn West

  3. If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it." Pierre Gallois.

  4. Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer." Rita May Brown.

  5. "Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest people on Earth."- Will Rogers

  6. "If you do not like the past, change it." William L. Burton

  7. The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.  ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

  8. You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. -- George W. Bush (on Education reform, Feb 21, 2001)

  9. History:  gossip well told.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

  10. History is philosophy teaching by examples.  ~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

  11. You said it! Richard Ponton FETC 2006

  12. History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.  ~Thomas Carlyle

  13. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped."- Marcel Achard

  14. Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.  ~African Proverb

  15. "Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness. To have knowledge, deep broad knowledge, is to know truth from false and lofty things from low.-- Helen Keller

  16. "The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Wright Morris

  17. All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.  ~Voltaire, Jeannot et Colin

  18. "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie.

  19. We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." Dan Quayle.

  20. An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." Edgar Wallace.

  21. You said it! Richard Ponton FETC 2006

  22. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso.

  23. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." Rich Cook.

  24. Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." Leonard Brandwein.

  25. If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." Robert X. Cringely.

  26. My problems all started with my early education. I went to a school for mentally disturbed teachers. -- Woody Allen

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

  28. "I can speak Esperanto like a native." Spike Milligan

  29. "I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."- Bruce Lee

  30. "Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?"- John Mendosa

  31. You said it! Richard Ponton FETC 2006

  32. "If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get."- John Watson

  33. "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."- Hector Louis Berlioz

  34. Keyboard not found. Press < F1 > to RESUME. "Source unknown (appears in many common BIOSes as a real error message)

  35. "If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous."- Desmond Bagley

  36. History never looks like history when you are living through it.  ~John W. Gardner

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

  38. "Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past." Sigmund Freud

  39. Legend:  A lie that has attained the dignity of age.  ~H.L. Mencken

  40. You said it! Richard Ponton FETC 2006

  41. Yogiisms • It ain't over till it's over.

  42. This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Bera

  43. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.Yogi Bera

  44. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.…another Yogi Bera

  45. The future ain't what it used to be.…still Yogi Bera

  46. It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. • …what??? Another Yogiism?

  47. I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. Who is the Yogi Bera guy???

  48. Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. The Great Philanderer, Yogi Bera

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