Wow.
When we can’t laugh, we have a very hard time finding an exit from what seems like a bottomless pit. One of my stress releasers, when I can’t seem to shake it off, is to watch or listen to something funny. Two of my favorites are “I Love Lucy” and “Mr. Bean.” However, due to copyright restrictions, I certainly can’t post any videos here! I will, though, add some humorous teacher quotes to cheer you up:
“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler—and less trouble.”
— Mark Twain
“I never did very well in math—I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.”
— Calvin Trillin
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
— Louis-Hector Berlioz
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.”
— Bill Gates
“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”
— Gracie Allen
“You know how to tell if the teacher is [stressed]? Movie Day.”
— Jay Mohr
HISTORIC BLUNDERS
This `telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.
Prentice Hall, editor in charge of business books, 1957
But what … is it good for?
Anonymous engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
So we went to Atari and said, `Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, `No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, `Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.’
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer Inc. on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his personal computer.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson , President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981
Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
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