awesome quote from Feynman about learning added!

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@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ On Life
 <p>
 "That which hinders your task is your task."
 
+<p>
+"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."
+<br>-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
 <p>
 "For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
 <br>-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -287,6 +296,12 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
 <p>
 "Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
 <br>-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about <a href="http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/12/28/debian-philosophy-and-people/">Debian, Philosophy, and People</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+<br>-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+</p>
 
 On Programming
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@@ -365,6 +380,7 @@ struggling with the code, compiler and environment."
 "System administrators pray to Eris, afterwards, very softly, thanking
 her for staying away..."
 <br>--Kees J Bot, in comp.os.minix, talking about preparing for an upgrade...
+</p>
 
 On Porsches
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