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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz ("Social Studies")
A sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from social sycophancy.
Antisocial arrogance is only for those of us who deserve it.
Propaganda - A socially correct goose
I'm tired of being this pristine little socially acceptable monstrosity
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
-- Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)
Donkey: a horse designed by a study team.
BASIC, n.:
A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
-- Wakko (Animaniacs)
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
-- Thomas Sowell
If you think that mental illness interferes with financial success, just look at the average television evangelist.
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."
-- George Iles
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
(Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina)
Boss, n.: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the Middle Ages the words 'boss' and 'botch' were largely synonymous, except that boss, in addition to meaning 'a supervisor of workers' also meant 'an ornamental stud.'
"Words sound stupid--look into my eyes."
-- Michael Stipe
"Facial art... ooh, how... wilderness of you!"
-- Q (to Chakotay, in Voyager, 'Death Wish')
If I had a degree, it would be in Literary Criticism and Cinema Studies. I would never consider a technical degree; how-to stuff, I think, should be self-taught or trade school taught. Training has nothing to do with education, which is what belongs in universities.
-- Roger Klorese
I maintain that it is my studies of humanities subjects that have given me my analytical abilities and the empathy it takes to work on user satisfaction issues, and the enabling technology of computers is a minor nuts'n'bolts thing, overvalued as "education."
-- Roger Klorese
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
-- Horngren
Patageometry, n: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants.
Dustin Pons, an American high-school student who attended a Soviet school for three weeks, as quoted in the New York Times: "American teenagers are more socially advanced. For instance, in their free time Soviets would rather read a book or walk in the park or play the piano. American teenagers would probably go out and watch TV, go to a movie, or something more actively inclined."
("The Progressive")
Teacher's First Law of Grading Lab Papers: If an experiment has perfect results, the student has cheated.
> Those who will not study history are condemned to repeat it.
And those who do study it, tend to repeat each other.
-- Ketil Malde