Linux Education

        "We're running out of adjectives to describe our situation.  We
had crisis, then we went into chaos, and now what do we call this?" said
Nicaraguan economist Francisco Mayorga, who holds a doctorate from Yale.
                -- The Washington Post, February, 1988

The New Yorker's comment:
        At Harvard they'd call it a noun.

What does education often do?  It makes a straight cut ditch of a
free meandering brook.
                -- Henry David Thoreau

                What I Did During My Fall Semester
On the first day of my fall semester, I got up.
Then I went to the library to find a thesis topic.
Then I hung out in front of the Dover.

On the second day of my fall semester, I got up.
Then I went to the library to find a thesis topic.
Then I hung out in front of the Dover.

On the third day of my fall semester, I got up.
Then I went to the library to find a thesis topic.
I found a thesis topic:
        How to keep people from hanging out in front of the Dover.
                -- Sister Mary Elephant, "Student Statement for Black Friday"

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?
                -- Erica Jong, "Fear of Flying"

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
                -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectuals"

What we do not understand we do not possess.
                -- Goethe

What's page one, a preemptive strike?
                -- Professor Freund, Communication, Ramapo State College

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into
the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
                -- Woody Allen

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
                -- Dave Parnas

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
                -- Karl Kraus