Featured Quotations

on the importance of ideas
on the importance of architecture
on the theft of good ideas
on good government
the measurement of success
the stages of mature behavior
on dreaming
on college life
on the price of doing business
on examinations
on important problems in academia
on happiness in a department
on the corrupting influence of power
power and pity
on new knowledge
powerful beyond imagination
vision and action
on foreign policy
on the incentive for accuracy
the advantage of being wrong
on the perception of progress
on being a Red Sox fan
getting tired
a recipe for no baseball in Detroit
a recipe for a packed restaurant in Chicago
on being a professor
35 Tips on English Writing
on being an editor
on understanding everything
on the aesthetic of austerity
blessings from trials
a book should be ...
gratitude
caution about collaboration
on being a parent in the 90's
on types of pedagogy
on the evolution of mathematics teaching
on the de-evolution of doing arithmetic
"Animal Farm" comes to linear algebra
on thinking, being, and following
on cockpits of the future
an ominous referee report
on unsolicited manuscripts
on expressing the truth
more or less?
on direction
how to disparage a nuclear physicist
chiasmi
free advice
you don't want to see ...
"Too Many Daves"
the kiss of fools
triple negative delicacy
what the universe is made of
"No kiddey"
Auto repair haiku
a man who appreciates the truth
a real pageturner
what difference can a numerical analyst make?
a proposed 28th amendment
the coarsening of civilization
the escalation of meanness in NYC politics
a thousand words
life without music
music and mathematics
on love
on love and marriage
99% of lawyers
bumper sticker smorgasboard
classic insults
a self-controlled individual
wisdom of Yogi Berra
Twain on Wagner
Twain speaking from experience
why the chicken crossed the road
Quantum materiae?
lightbulb joke for faculty
Y2K true-to-life humor
Television is...
programming distributed hierarchical memory machines
what is the world's fastest computer?
Dijkstra on computer science
on the invention of software
on the importance of software
the uncertainty principle in projects
Robert's Rule of Interfaces
When to use Monte Carlo
Mark Twain paraphrased
on linearity
The Tenth Beatitude
Marxist Principles
on beating a dead horse
dogs and fleas
a hot bath and sin
burning bridges
on speaking prose
oui-oui
Veni, vidi, ...
think you can?
what to write
the reason for leaving
Fishing?
Object or Agent?
Proverbs

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