What's The Best Thought You Learned in School?

[SlowwHand]

Cheap is the most expensive way you can go. Just an observation off one of the posts.

[ZEE]

"Walk Slow, Talk Slow, and Dont Say Too Much..." - sign above the whiteboard in my High-School math class

[VetLegion]

fish are food, friends aren't

[rah]

sodium nitrate + sulfur + charcoal

[SlowwHand]

=

[yaroslav]

"Urgent is not the same than important."

Actually, I do not remember whether that was in the University or in my first year of work

[Grandpa Troll]

We all walk in the path of those whom have gone before us-One of my Master Instructors


If they call an orange an orange, why dont they call a banana a yellow?-Christopher Lloyd-Taxi

[Zkribbler]

"When in trouble,
Or in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and shout!

[LordShiva]

friends are food, fish aren't

[Blake]

If you steal another kids food, adults yell at you and you feel really bad.


I think those first couple of years at school were pretty useful, educational even. Shame about the other dozen.

[Zkribbler]

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

(a guide for Global Leadership)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]

[Krill]

Three parts conc. Nitric acid + 3 parts conc. Sulfuric acid + 1 part phenol, heat to 150 degrees c in a building you don't like and leave.

[Krill]

Originally posted by rah
sodium nitrate + sulfur + charcoal

My one's better

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Heh, my OS prof said the same thing, in almost exactly the same words, during lecture yesterday.

[Asher]

It's a rather famous quote in computer science.

(Also. I am your prof. )