"Why should I reinvent the wheel?" My response is, "Because with online learning, we are trying to fly."

-- Patrick McCormick, Unknown , April 18, 2005

"You look at this and see gun parts. I look at it and see a craft project." --Head cheerleader to bank robbing gang.

-- movie "Sugar and Spice", Unknown , Unknown

...four "laws of media" ... any new medium (1) extends or intensifies something, (2) renders something obsolete, (3) retrieves or brings back something, and (4) transcends itself or "flips into" something new.

-- Marshall McLuhan, Unknown , Unknown

640k ought to be enough for anybody

-- Bill Gates, Unknown , 1981

A book is a mirror: When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station…

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

A load of books does not equal one good teacher.

-- Chinese proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one-eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred and twenty-eighth.

-- Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet. NY: Henry Holt & Co., P. 13, 1999

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

-- Dave Barry, Unknown , Unknown

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper, Unknown , Unknown

A short pencil is better than a long memory.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

A university floats on paper and rewards the creation of more words on paper.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

-- Amelia E. Barr, 1831-1919, All the Days of My Life, 1913

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.

-- Dan Rather, Unknown , Unknown

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

-- Lewis Thomas, Unknown , Unknown

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired-- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

-- Bliss Perry, Unknown , Unknown

Art is I; science is we.

-- Claude Bernard, Unknown , 1813-1878

AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote."

-- Jay Leno, Unknown , Unknown

Bad command. Bad, BAD command. Sit! Stay.

-- on a Button, Unknown , Unknown

Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Basic Law of Construction: Cut it large and kick it into place.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

-- Stephen V. Benet, Unknown , Unknown

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

-- Thoreau, Walden, Unknown

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they are written.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

Books. Cats. Life is good.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Bugs are Sons of Glitches!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

Cartoon of a dog sitting at a computer and telling another dog, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

-- New Yorker Magazine, Unknown , Unknown

Change is good. You go first.

-- Scott Adams., Dilbert cartoon., Unknown

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Come gather round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown, And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth saving, Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’

-- Bob Dylan, "The times they are a-changin'", 1960?

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

Computers come in two varieties: the prototype and the obsolete.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

-- Popular Mechanics, Unknown , 1949

Computers will never be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.

-- Laurence J. Peter, Unknown , born September 16, 1919

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

-- John Billings, Unknown , 1818-1885

Constant change is here to stay.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Context is always as relevant as concept.

-- Terry Olson, Focus on Faculty, Vol 15(2), Brigham Young University Faculty Center, 2005

Crawling still gets you there.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much biology. Don’t know science books. Don’t know about the French I took. But I do know I love you And I do know if you love me too, what a wonderful world this would be. Don’t know much about geography. Don’t know much trigonometry. Don’t know much about algebra. Don’t know what a slide ruler is for. But I do know one and one is two And if this one could be with you, what a wonderful world this would be. Now I don’t claim to be an A student. But I’m trying to be. Maybe by being an A student, baby, You’ll give your love to me.

-- Joel Landry, song "What a Wonderful World", Unknown

Each new change grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

-- Hal Borland, Unknown , Unknown

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

-- Gene Perrett, Unknown , Unknown

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.

-- Tim Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

-- Donald E. Knuth, Computer Science Professor Emeritus, Stanford, http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html, Unknown

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

-- Neil Postman, The End of Education, Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

-- Harry Anderson, Unknown , Unknown

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-- Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.

-- Clive James, Unknown , Unknown

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

-- Alice Kahn, Unknown , Unknown

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

-- Richard P. Feynman, Unknown , Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

Give a person a fiche, and they'll research for a day, but teach them to use the Net, and they'll research for a lifetime…

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

-- Mike Godwin, Unknown , Unknown

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

Home is where you hang your @

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

How do I set a laser printer to stun?

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , 1922

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention--invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

-- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from the animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

-- Jeff Stilson, Unknown , Unknown

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest of caution.

-- Werner Von Braun, Unknown , Unknown

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.

-- editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, Unknown , 1957

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

-- Golda Meir, Unknown , Unknown

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers

-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, Unknown , 1943

I wish there was some way to turn down the stupidity on tv. There's a knob called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, “This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!”

-- Lewis Mumford, To National Book Awards Committee, 'My Works and Days' Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers--teachers with very loud voices.

-- George Lucas, Unknown , Unknown

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

-- Oscar Levant, Unknown , born December 27, 1906

If at first you don't succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the instructions.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

-- Paris Hilton, when introduced to author Joan Collins, Unknown

If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If nothing sticks to Teflon, how does it stick to the pan?

-- George E. Bradley, print media column, "Ever Wonder?", Unknown

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

-- Latin proverb, Unknown , Unknown

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

-- Edward A. Murphy, Jr., Original formulation of "Murphy's Law", Air Force flight safety manuals., 1949

If we find a device that cuts our workload in half, we double our production. We sacrifice the saved labor for improved output.

-- H. Frederick Filice, "The Computer Ate My Homework" and Other Signs of Progress in Modern Life" in The Key Reporter, Vol 68, No. 2, p. 5, Winter 2003

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

-- Alan King, Unknown , born December 26, 1927

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - the universe has been left unlocked.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.

-- Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur, Unknown , Unknown

In a mere half-century films have gone from silent to unspeakable.

-- Doug Larson, Unknown , Unknown

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , 1973

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

-- Brian K. Reid, Unknown , Unknown

In places, this book is a little over-written because Mr. Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

-- George Orwell, on Edmund Blunden, Unknown , Unknown

In the computer world, hardware is anything you can hit with a hammer, software is what you can only curse at.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

In the Industrial Age, we went to school. In the Communication Age, schools will come to us.

-- from the masthead of The Online Chronicle of Distance Education Communication, Unknown , Unknown

In the opening years of the new century, our colleges and universities have reached a watershed between the failing end of a once golden era and an economic, structural, and technological transformation lying just over the campus horizon. As a consequence, they must rethink what they do, for whom they do it, and how they can do it more effectively, more efficiently, and with greater concern for the welfare of what will be a larger and demographically different body of undergraduates.

-- Mel Elfin, "Longtime Observer Gives Low Grade to Trends in U.S. Higher Education" in The Key Reporter, Vol 68, No. 2, p. 11, Winter 2003

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours--one for flying and the other to get to the airport.

-- Neil H. McElroy, Unknown , born October 30, 1904

In this country we spend 4 times the amount on beer more than we spend on books - that's why our bellies are bigger than our brains.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

-- E. Hoffer, Unknown , Unknown

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories--those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.

-- Russell Baker, Unknown , born August 14, 1925

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

-- June Singer, Unknown , Unknown

It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , 1874-1965

It is one of the great pleasures of a student's life to buy a heap of books at the beginning of the autumn. Here, he fancies, are all the secrets.

-- Robert Lynd, Unknown , Unknown

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

-- Rose Macaulay, Unknown , Unknown

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful-- there are far too many children.

-- Marguerite Yourcenar., Unknown , Unknown

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , 1799

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson, author of seminal Economics text and winner of Nobel Prize in economics., 20th century

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

-- Anna Ford, b. 1943, Observer, September 23, 1979

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar, Unknown

Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code.....he turned himself in.

-- Rita Rudner, Unknown , Unknown

Men have become the tools of their tools.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , 1817-1862

New technologies are always used to do old tasks--until some driving force causes them to be used in new ways.

-- Marshall McLuhan, Unknown , Unknown

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

-- Edward Shepherd Mead, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing has come along that can beat the horse and buggy.

-- Chauncey Depew, lawyer, politician and businessman, advising his nephew to not invest in Henry Ford's automobile., Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

On Artificial Intelligence: The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

On email, people aren't quite themselves. They are angrier, less sympathetic, less aware, more easily wounded, even more gossipy and duplicitous. Email has a tendency to encourage the lesser angels of our nature.

-- David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, Unknown

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.

-- Alexander Graham Bell, Unknown , Unknown

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and watch me.

-- John Barrymore, Unknown , Unknown

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been 80 years at it, and have not reached my goal.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

-- Theophile Gautier, Unknown , 1858

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

-- Alvin Toffler, American futurist, Unknown , Unknown

Over the years, Mrs. Loraine Walker's vision of the campus had changed. The collection of stone buildings had evolved, in her mind, into a web of offices, where secretaries sat under bright lights and near them, much more dimly, sat administrators whose grasp on things was tenuous at best. ....The only people who talked on the phone anymore were the administrators, whose whole lives, like those of chimps, were made up of nit-picking, stroking, and jockeying for dominance. ...The stony walls and concrete paths, the closed windows and doors, the trees and shrubs, all the elements of the campus that seemed to separate people, had become permeable membranes undetectable in the wafting currents of information.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 137, 1995

Paperwork is the invention of the devil.

-- Alexis A. Gilliland, Unknown , Unknown

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, Unknown , Unknown

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, President, AAUP., Academe, Nov/Dec 1994

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

-- Niels Bohr, born October 7, 1885, Unknown

Progress has its drawbacks; you can't warm your feet on a microwave.

-- Doug Larson, Unknown , Unknown

Progress is based on perfect technology.

-- Jean Renoir, Unknown , Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

-- Pamela Vaull Starr, Unknown , Unknown

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider

-- Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1605

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

-- Wilfred Peterson, Unknown , Unknown

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Unknown , 1772-1834

Reading books is an antidote to urgency and chaos because it cannot be rushed. Every book has its own rhythm and a physical intimacy that E-mail and similar instant information can never achieve. Media glut often confuses information with understanding. Just when you seem to be most pressed, books miraculously expand time for reflection, cogitation, and mental rest.

-- Rchard E. Cytowic, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Unknown

Reading without thinking is as nothing, as a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes one think.

-- Louis L'Amour, Unknown , Unknown

Remember when family meals were carefully thought out instead of thawed out?

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

-- Ann Landers, Unknown , Unknown

Rules are the solutions to yesterday's problems.

-- Button, Unknown , Unknown

Science and technology hold out for you a dazzling and almost unimaginable future. At the same time, science and technology hold out an alternative future, unimaginable, too, but endlessly, illimitably dark.

-- Arthur Schlesinger, Unknown , 1983

Science, engineering, technology. All worthless unless they make you feel something.

-- BMW ad, Brill's Content, p. 16, 1998, November

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be.

-- James P. Hogan, Code of the Lifemaker, Unknown

She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Unknown , Unknown

Socrates was not a content provider.

-- David Noble, Unknown , Unknown

Some minds are eager for any change, and some are angry at any.

-- M. Woolsey Stryker, Unknown , 1894

Some people are addicted to gambling, daytime television, romance novels. Not me. I am addicted to the bathroom scale. There is no greater authority.

-- Judith Burman, Unknown , Unknown

Some people eat from the three basic food groups - canned, frozen, and take-out.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Some professors feel the reason the modern student doesn't burn the midnight oil as he used to is that he doesn't get in soon enough.

-- Mildred Meiers and Jack Knaff, Unknown , Unknown

Some teachers are just textbooks wired for sound.

-- Dr. Lola May, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.

-- Kobi Yamada, Unknown , Unknown

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

-- Fred Hoyler, Unknown , Unknown

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

-- James M. Wallace, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

-- Joyce A. Myers, Unknown , Unknown

Technological change is not additive; it's ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything.

-- Neil Postman, Unknown , Unknown

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

-- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Unknown

Technology advances: people stay the same.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Technology is a big plus in your life

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

-- Max Frisch, Unknown , born 1911

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

-- Peter Drucker, Unknown , Unknown

Technology is the most subtle and the most effective engineer of enduring social change. Its apparent neutrality is deceptive and often disarming.

-- Robert MacIver, Unknown , Unknown

Technology which connects is successful technology.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

-- Ann Landers, Unknown , Unknown

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Unknown , Unknown

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV--more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

-- Shook, M. & Shook, R., The Book of Odds, 1991

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

-- Hellen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

The best programmers, designers, and architects are lazy.

-- Dick Munroe, Unknown , Unknown

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

-- Susan Sontag, Unknown , Unknown

The colder the x-ray table the more of your body is required on it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The computer is a great invention. There are just as many mistakes as ever. But they are nobody's fault.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

The computer is a moron.

-- Peter Drucker, Unknown , Unknown

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.

-- Stanton Delaplane, San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 1984

The difference between perception and fact is that fact changes.

-- Ron Krouch, Unknown , Unknown

The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The fountain of wisdom flows through books.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The future is already here - it's just unevenly distributed.

-- William Gibson, Unknown , Unknown

The geek shall inherit the earth.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

-- Richard Wright, Unknown , Unknown

The Internet isn't a broadcast medium. It's a conversation.

-- John Perry Barlow, Unknown , Unknown

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The more disk space you produce, the more files will be created to fill it - it's like feeding pigeons.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

-- J. Arthur Thomson, Unknown , Unknown

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , 1928

The paper clip... is a powerful force for order.

-- Newsweek Special Issue, Unknown , Winter 1997-98

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

-- Sydney J. Harris, Unknown , Unknown

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

The splendid discontent of God With chaos, made the world. And from the discontent of man The world’s best progress springs

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Discontent", n.d.

The text is a machine for producing meaning.

-- Octavio Paz, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

-- Alexander Calder, Unknown , Unknown

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

-- Edgar A. Shoaff, Unknown , Unknown

The user will forget mathematics in proportion to the complexity of the calculator.

-- John L. Shelton, Unknown , Unknown

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick, Unknown , Unknown

There are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

-- Stephen Covey, Unknown , Unknown

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

-- Joseph Brodsky, Unknown , 1991, May 19

There can be too much communication between people.

-- Ann Beattie, Unknown , Unknown

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Unknown , born July 1, 1742

There is a great difference between information and inspiration. You can get information by the cartful and the wagonful and the libraryful and the Sunday newspaperful, or in any other chunks or lumps that you choose. ..It is cheap; it is common; and it is worth about as much as it costs. But inspiration which comes from touching the life of truth itself is a priceless gem which comes only from close, devoted and continuous toil. A man knows when he has touched red-hot truth. He feels the shock…

-- Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Unknown , 1898

There is no economy in going to bed early to save electricity if the result be twins.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

-- Ken Olson, President, CEO and founder of Digital Equipment, Unknown , 1977

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , 1856-1900

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

-- Red Smith, Unknown , born September 25, 1905

Things change, and the certain convictions of one time become the dated beliefs of another. What does not change is the quest for understanding, humility about what we know, and respect for views that differ from our own.

-- John M. Reisman, Unknown , Unknown

This must be an era when the soul catches up with the brain, when soul directs science, when motives master machines, when how men feel becomes as important as what men know.

-- Rev. Louis Hadley Evans, Unknown , 1952

This website snared me!

-- Kenneth Kuehn, personal communication w/regard to the quotation website., June 2006

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

-- Walter Benjamin, Unknown , Unknown

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

-- Freya Stark, The Lycian Shore. Wyman & Sons, Ltd: London. P. 29, 1956

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat.

-- Winston Churchill, on America, Unknown , Unknown

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

-- John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Unknown

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

-- Somerset Maugham, Unknown , Unknown

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

-- Kurt Herber Adler, Unknown , born 1834

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected!

-- Alice James, Unknown , Unknown

Two-thirds of the people on the planet die without ever making or receiving a phone call. There are some clear impediments to bringing 100 megabit Ethernet to those people when we can't even get a phone call into them yet.

-- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems., MacAddict, Aug 1997

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

-- R.D. Laing, Unknown , Unknown

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity--gunpowder and romantic love.

-- Andre Maurois, Unknown , Unknown

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

We shouldn't teach great books, we should teach a love of reading.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

-- Robert Wilensky, Unknown , Unknown

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters! You can't reread a phone call.

-- Liz Carpenter, Unknown , Unknown

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

-- Alice James, Unknown , Unknown

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

When you dance with a bear, you can't quit just because you're tired.

-- Russian Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Whether we are building a railroad or a cathedral, writing a book or painting a picture, few Americans are willing to take time to produce a really great result. Life today is so hurried, so tense, so frenzied, that the possibility of a sane and normal life is almost precluded.

-- Marion Le Roy Burton, Unknown , 1914

Who coined the term "labor-saving device" and used it in reference to the computer? The zipper had to be the last labor-saving device we invented.

-- H. Frederick Filice, "The Computer Ate My Homework" and Other Signs of Progress in Modern Life" in The Key Reporter, Vol 68, No. 2, p. 5, Winter 2003

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

-- George E. Bradley, print media column, "Ever Wonder?", Unknown

Why dust the house when you can just wait a couple of years and get a snowblower.

-- Unknown., Unknown , Unknown

With written words, however, " .they seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you the same thing forever."

-- Plato, Unknown , Unknown

Women were first admitted to university in Saudi Arabia in 1962, and all women's colleges remain strictly segregated. Lecture rooms come equipped with closed-circuit TVs and telephones, so women students can listen to a male professor and question him by phone, without having to contaminate themselves by being seen by him.

-- Geraldine Brooks., Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. NY: Anchor Books. P., Unknown

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

-- Jan Glidewell, Unknown , Unknown

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

-- Steven Wright, Unknown , Unknown

You don't really have any way of knowing what is going to be useful in the future. That is the fly in the ointment of Utilitarianism.

-- Leroy S. Rouner, philosopher, "Resolved: That Phi Beta Kappa is Gloriously Useless", The Key Reporter, p. 1, 4-5., Autumn, 2000

You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.

-- Joan Rivers, Unknown , Unknown

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Your student is only a click away from leaving the classroom.

-- Eliot Mason, with reference to on-line courses, Unknown , Unknown

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

-- Fred Allen, Unknown , Unknown

[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

-- David Frost, Unknown , Unknown

[W]hat is the use of a book…without pictures or conversations?

-- Lewis Carroll. Said by Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Ed by Roger Lancelyn Green. Oxford University Press, 1982

….increasingly, we live in a world of pictures and a world of television. My presentation yesterday went out around the world and people saw it. There was a picture in of our newspapers this morning of a group of young Marines sitting on an aircraft carrier watching the presentation live. They are not waiting for it to be written up. They are not waiting for somebody to comment on it. They are not waiting for a talking-head to tell them what they saw. They were seeing it 10,000 miles away in real time, and making their own judgment.

-- Colin Powell, Secretary of State, Unknown , February 6, 2003

…one of the great ironies of Western philosophy. Its founding practitioner, Socrates, wrote nothing down--no philosophy, anyway; and his greatest pupil so distrusted writing that he wrote dialogues, a form that mimics the life of the spoken word.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

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