Galvanism Classroom Quotes

#1. You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Bob Kahn

#2. ... It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

M T Anderson

#3. People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Margaret Thatcher

#4. Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#5. We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.

Raphael Zernoff

#6. And if the gods were to give me a choice between living a better life, having not met them, or a wretched life with the slightest chance of crossing their path, then I'd pick the wretched life over and over again.

Melina Marchetta

#7. The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

John Ortberg

#8. My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.

John Caudwell

#9. The metaphor I've used is ... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

Randy Pausch