Megan Olsen: Quotes
I've been compiling a list of quotes I've enjoyed over the past few years, and thought it fitting to share a few. Some are already well known, others are from people I know:
"It might be trite and cliche, but it would be a travesty of the highest order to have the opportunity to write a Hello,World! program and not capitalize on the occasion." -- the book Linux Kernel Development
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies. They are not here to worship what is known but to question it." -- J. Bronowski
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'" -- Admiral Grace Hopper
"Well, maybe emo kids are less optimal." -- Class project partner, as it related to the findings in our emotions class project
"You have to be really creative once you have a PhD, because then everyone expects you to know everything even though you don't." -- Previous co-worker, who has a PhD
"Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy." -- Ronald T. Azuma
"Some students in the lab are only nominally supervised by a thesis advisor. This can work out well for people who are independent self-starters. It has the advantage that you have only your own neuroses to deal with, not your advisor's as well." -- from 'How to do research at the MIT AI Lab'
"If you don't like kitties...you just don't know how to cook them right." -- magnet from javascript website JS-Kit.com
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there." -- Clare Booth Luce
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." -- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky
"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice." -- Holbrook Jackson
