"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."
"If you weren't my teacher, I'd think you just deleted all my files."
UCB CS student, to an instructor who had typed "rm -f *" to get rid of a file named "-f" on a Unix system.
"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."
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students"
"Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation."
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
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