Linux Education

History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles,
cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names.
                -- Leo Tolstoy

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
                -- Elliot, "E.T."

I am a bookaholic.  If you are a decent person, you will not sell me
another book.

"I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it."
                -- English Professor

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone
has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
                -- Professor Lowd, English, Ohio University

I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the
sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are
loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway.
                -- Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, Professor of Philosophy,
                   University of Tennessee at Knoxville

I came out of twelve years of college and I didn't even know how to sew.
All I could do was account -- I couldn't even account for myself.
                -- Firesign Theatre

I came to MIT to get an education for myself and a diploma for my mother.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to
make it shorter.
                -- Blaise Pascal

"I have to convince you, or at least snow you ..."
                -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435