"That which hinders your task is your task." +
+"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education
+other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is
+a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher---a
+situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things,
+and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
+sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
+
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -147,6 +156,14 @@ orientation -- be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?"
intelligent are full of doubt."
-- Bertrand Russell
+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people â and this is true
+whether or not they are well-educated â is that intelligent people can
+handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory
+situations â in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious
+when things seem overly straightforward."
+
-- Neal Stephenson, from The Diamond Age
"People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue -- this @@ -287,6 +304,12 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
"Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about Debian, Philosophy, and People
+
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+