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You said it!. Richard Ponton FETC 2006. The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the Future. ~Jessamyn West. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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You said it!
Richard Ponton
FETC 2006
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• The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the Future. ~Jessamyn West
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• 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.
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• Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer." Rita May Brown.
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• "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
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• "If you do not like the past, change it." William L. Burton
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• The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture
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• 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)
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• History: gossip well told. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary
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• History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
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You said it!
Richard Ponton
FETC 2006
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• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. ~Thomas Carlyle
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• 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
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• Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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• "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
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• "The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Wright Morris
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• All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. ~Voltaire, Jeannot et Colin
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• "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie.
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• We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." Dan Quayle.
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• An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." Edgar Wallace.
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You said it!
Richard Ponton
FETC 2006
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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso.
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• 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.
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• Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." Leonard Brandwein.
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• 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.
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• My problems all started with my early education. I went to a school for mentally disturbed teachers. -- Woody Allen
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• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." Isaac Asimov.
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• "I can speak Esperanto like a native." Spike Milligan
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• "I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."- Bruce Lee
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• "Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?"- John Mendosa
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You said it!
Richard Ponton
FETC 2006
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• "If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get."- John Watson
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• "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."- Hector Louis Berlioz
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• Keyboard not found. Press < F1 > to RESUME. "Source unknown (appears in many common BIOSes as a real error message)
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• "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
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• History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~John W. Gardner
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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -- Robert Frost
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• "Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past." Sigmund Freud
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• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~H.L. Mencken
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You said it!
Richard Ponton
FETC 2006
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Yogiisms
• It ain't over till it's over.
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• This is like deja vu all over again.
Yogi Bera
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• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.Yogi Bera
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• When you come to a fork in the road, take it.…another Yogi Bera
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• The future ain't what it used to be.…still Yogi Bera
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• It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
• …what??? Another Yogiism?
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• I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
Who is the Yogi Bera guy???
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
The Great Philanderer, Yogi Bera