X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Fquotes.mdwn;h=5acd12777bf1e8434d9b10fd3fc2c80d3722a3db;hp=803624ed61f530c72a17bf69a7098001921c206e;hb=f11610de9fecad8ee0c6813060f21e8af33ed4ba;hpb=efcf486416ea9b41fa12249fb957676cf0b2caaf diff --git a/bdale/quotes.mdwn b/bdale/quotes.mdwn index 803624e..5acd127 100644 --- a/bdale/quotes.mdwn +++ b/bdale/quotes.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ On Life

"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 @@ -287,6 +296,12 @@ 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 +

On Programming -------------- @@ -365,6 +380,7 @@ struggling with the code, compiler and environment." "System administrators pray to Eris, afterwards, very softly, thanking her for staying away..."
--Kees J Bot, in comp.os.minix, talking about preparing for an upgrade... +

On Porsches -----------