Linux Education

The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
                -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog)

The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
                -- Earl Warren

That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all
the lessons that history has to teach.
                -- Aldous Huxley

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
                -- Georg Hegel

HISTORY:  Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn
nothing from history.  I know people who can't even learn from what happened
this morning.  Hegel must have been taking the long view.
                -- Chad C. Mulligan, "The Hipcrime Vocab"

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
                -- Hegel

I know guys can't learn from yesterday ... Hegel must be taking the long view.
                -- John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"

The problem with graduate students, in general, is that they have
to sleep every few days.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the
illiterates can read.
                -- Alberto Moravia

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
                -- Christopher Morley

"The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and
is an emerging underachiever."

The sum of the intelligence of the world is constant.  The population is,
of course, growing.

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
                -- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed"

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
                -- F. Scott Fitzgerald