Stonehelm Plattsburgh Quotes & Sayings

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce

In Chile, everything from "kindergarten to cemeteries and community swimming pools were put out for bid." Between 1985 and 1992, over two thousand government industries were sold off throughout Latin America. Much of this property passed into the hands of either multinational corporations or Latin America's "superbillionaires," a new class that had taken advantage of the dismantling of the state to grow spectacularly rich. — Greg Grandin

It's only in mirrors that people get old. — Marty Rubin

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. — Timothy Noah

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. — Ronald Reagan

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. — Burt Bacharach

Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. — Ivan Illich

It's very important to think optimistically. You've got to think to yourself, 'I'm going to get better every day.' — Ty Simpkins

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely. — Charles C. Mann

Since there are Indian movies, of necessity there is an Indian film theory that informs Indian scholars. However, that theory remains to be formulated. — Gaston Roberge

Praise is the portal to the presence of God. — David Brazzeal

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure. — Stanley Fish

Legacy code often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling. — Bjarne Stroustrup