Niels Bohr
Mark Twain (unconfirmed)
currently unknown (many claimants)
Albert Einstein
attribution misplaced
Yogi Berra
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
Eric Hoffer in The True Believer
Charles de Gaulle
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Lillian Hellman
H. L. Mencken
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
The Chief of the Revolutionary Police in Paris in 1848
on famous Russian anarchist Michail Bakunin.
Douglas B. Moran
Bernard of Chartres
Noam Chomsky
Unattributed (quoted in news posting 1990 October 05)
Sir Walter Scott in "Marmion," 6:17
Conclusions of J. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania,
Corey Wade, research director at Alexander & Associates,
The Simpsons, episode "Blood Feud" (second season)
Seneca (Roman Philosopher, first century C.E.)
Benjamin Disraeli, popularized in the USA by Mark Twain
Herbert Hoover
Latka Gravis (played by Andy Kaufman) in television sitcom Taxi
Barry LePatner (business author)
President George W. Bush in an interview with Jim Lehrer (PBS Newshour broadcast 2007-01-17) in response to a question about what have ordinary American's sacrificed for the war in Iraq.
???
George Bernard Shaw
unknown
Bill Bradley (Former US Senator), commencement address at Ithaca College, 2006
Michigan State University (more specific attribution not available),
from essay by Linda Mikels in
Do Teachers Need Education Degrees?
No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
A politician is an acrobat: He keeps his balance
by saying the opposite of what he dooes.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence
and yet keep both ears to the ground.
A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for lunch.
Freedom is a well-armed sheep contesting the results of the decision.
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
be properly armed.
What a man! A veritable treasure on the first day of the revolution -
but on the next day, you have to execute him.
More literary rendering:
On the first day, he was a treasure.
On the second day, he should have been shot.
The meek shall inherit the earth,
but the lawyers will get it all in probate.
If I have seen further,
it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure
can play an important role,
both negative and positive,
in the process of discovery itself.
By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation
to an unacceptable conclusion,
we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and,
consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data.
More positively, a formalized theory may automatically
provide solutions for many problems
other than those for which it was explicitly designed.
in preface to Syntactic Structures
...unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated,
no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful.
And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in
speech technology they are a positive boon.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
"... professors who wish to be published in the academic press must:
who supposedly conducted his own analysis of academic writing.
Reported in "ProfScam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education"
by Charles J. Sykes.
downplaying the impact of the DeCSS hack
on the entertainment industry.
And, uh, now I would like to present the man
who made this sign possible by dropping the last
of his obstructionist legal challenges, Montgomery Burns.
This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans:
We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding,
whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning.
Since they attribute everything to gods,
they are led to believe not that events have a meaning
because they have happened,
but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists.
They're too damn greedy.
The people from my country believe - and rightly so - that the only thing separating man from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
They sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible images of violence on TV every night.
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
If you tell people the truth, you better make them laugh or they'll kill you
(no authoritative version found - several minor variations)
We hold elections in November because it is the traditional time for getting (picking out) a turkey.
President Williams, members of the faculty, members of the class of 2006, friends and family of the class of 2006. I want to continue my acknowledgments. I'm very
sensitive, I want to make sure that I acknowledge every element of this community. And so let me borrow from Garry Trudeau and continue my acknowledgments:
and so I recognize Chairman Bill Haines and members of the board of trustees, bored members of the trustees, those who watch "The Sopranos," those who watch
"American Idol," those who still watch the reruns of "Frasier," those who don't like TV. Denizens of Ithaca, denizens of the night, knights of Tompkins County, people
of class, classy people, people of height, the vertically constrained, people of hair, the indifferently coiffed, the optically challenged, the temporarily sighted, the
insightful, the out of sight, the out-of-towners, the Afrocentrics, the Eurocentrics, the Eurocentrics with Eurail passes, the eccentrically inclined. The sexually
disinclined, people of sex, sexy people, earthy people, animal companions, friends of the earth, friends of the boss, the temporarily employed, the differently
employed, the differently optioned, people with options, people with stock options, Knick fans, Celtic fans, those who don't have the wisdom to be either Knick or
Celtic fans, the divestiturists, the deconstructionists, the home constructionists, the homeless, the temporarily housed at home, and, God save us parents, the
permanently housed at home. Good morning!
I've decided "gerbilism" is a pretty good word for what's been going on in the news media these days. Gerbilism is an apt term for something that's soft and warm and cuddly, safe and timid, with no sharp teeth and no bite whatsoever. Gerbilism, I've decided, is partly responsible for a lot of our nation's problems today.
An educated person is someone who has learned how to acquire, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, understand, and communicate knowledge and information. An educated person has to develop skills that respond to changing professional requirements and new challenges in society and the world at large. He or she must be able to take skills previously gained from serious study of one set of problems and apply them to another. He or she must be able to locate, understand, interpret, evaluate, and use information in an appropriate way and ultimately communicate his or her synthesis and understanding of that information in a clear and accurate manner.
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