Richard
S. Croft
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Multimedia Studies
Eastern
Oregon University
La Grande, OR
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On-line media internship with Fleishman
Software Developer with Clearwater Analytics
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Quotes of the Week
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. (William Shakespeare)
Now the trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. (C. S. Lewis)
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. (Woody Allen)
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. (William Shakespeare)
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. (Anatole France)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
(Mark Twain)
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
(Bertrand Russell)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
(Groucho Marx)
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
(Gloria Pitzer)
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
(Clifford Stoll)
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
(Ambrose Bierce)
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. (Ambrose Bierce)
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
(Matt Groenig)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
(Carl Sagan)
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. (Bill Vaughan)
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. (John F. Kennedy)