Proverbs, Quotes, parodies, jokes

Students

• Academic Metabolism and another version
• graduate school survival guide
• Piled higher and Deeper comics
• School is hell -- Matt Groening
• The Onion's classic "Graduate Student Deconstructs Take out Menu" is no longer available on their site, but a short quote may give some of its flavour: "Am I completely losing my mind? I just wanted to order some food from Burrito Bandito. Next thing I know, I'm analyzing the menu's content as a text, or 'text,' subjecting it to a rigorous critical reevaluation informed by Derrida, De Man, etc., as a construct, or 'construct,' made up of multi-varied and, in fact, often self-contradictory messages, or 'meanings,' derived from the cultural signifiers evoked by the menu, or 'menu,' and the resultant assumptions within not only the mind of the menu's 'authors' and 'readers,' but also within the larger context of our current postmodern media environment."
• Graduate School Barbie
• The Graduate Student's Guide to Self-Diagnosis and Treatment
• Dead Grandmother Syndrome
• Grad student humor
• Academic Life, grad student section
• math jokes
• XKCD comics -- Randall Munroe -- mostly math/CS, but not always in good taste.

Computers

• ece476 Proverbs
• Odd computer languages INTERCAL

Science

• Electron Microscope cartoon made for Miriam Salpeter around 1962
• Annals of improbable research
• The Doctor fun archives and some related pages
• Great quotes from great skeptics
• Al Inselberg's AI's ALTRUISMS -- version 1.31
• Two months in the lab will save you two hours in the library. (can't locate author)
• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Einstein
• Without the genes that give rise to autism,
  the world would be full of charming people who sit around the campfire,
  chatting gaily and empathizing mightly, but inventing nothing. - Temple Grandin
• pity this busy monster, manunkind

  pity this busy monster, manunkind,

  not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
  your victim (death and life safely beyond)

  plays with the bigness of his littleness
  --- electrons deify one razorblade
  into a mountainrange; lenses extend
  unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
  returns on its unself.
  A world of made
  is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

  and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
  fine specimen of hypermagical

  ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

  a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
  of a good universe next door; let's go

  -- E. E. Cummings

General

• No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce
• Honor those who seek truth; fear those who have found it. -- Andre Gide
• What I cannot create, I do not understand. -- Richard Feynman
• Good judgment comes from experience... and experience comes from bad judgment. -- Fred Brooks
• Luck is the residue of hard work and design -- Branch Rickey
• Experience is the residue of hard work -- speaker at Ken Torrence memorial.
• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. -- Robert Hanlon (also known as "Hanlon's razor")
• Without the genes that give rise to autism, the world would be full of charming people who sit around the campfire, chatting gaily and empathizing mightily, but inventing nothing. - Temple Grandin
• Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. -- George S. Patton
• Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind. -- TH Huxley
• If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. -- John B. S. Haldane
• I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
• There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -- Mark Twain
• Groucho Marx Quotes
• Mark Twain Quotes and another

Oddities

• Virtual Slide rule and another
• Palindrome told to our class in 1967 by psychology professor Mike Seven:
  Gnostic at a devil radar lived a tacit song.