"Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
“Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.”
“C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.”

Source : Grady Booch (1991). “Object Oriented Design: With Applications”, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
“We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.”
“Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!”
“Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
“For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.”

Source : Otto Rank (1936). “Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship”
“I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.”

Source : "Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.

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