Three Good Quotes

Hi,

Sorry for the dearth of posts here recently... the semester has body slammed me to the point that I'm happy when I manage to show up to one of my four lectures each week prepared with, you know, slides and stuff to talk about. :-)

Anyway, I was cleaning up my inbox today and discovered a message I sent to myself to remember three good quotes.

Here they are:

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." — Franklin P. Jones

(Story of my life.)

"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." — Unknown

(Guaranteed to crack up any academic… well most of them anyway.)

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" — Benjamin Franklin

(This is a good one to keep in mind when the TSA confiscates your toothpaste because its sitting in a container that can hold more than 3oz of toothpaste. Note: this happened recently to a colleague of mine in my computer science department.)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the quotes, I figure we all need some cheering up in light of the fact that our country decided to legalize torture and attack the notion of habeas corpus this week.

Enjoy your rights while you have them, our current administration is supposedly focused on enemy combatants now, but of course, U.S. citizens who disagree with this administration must be aiding the enemy (right?), so it won't be long until they turn their attention to the terrorists who live among us.

Enjoy,

Ken