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Saturday 22 June 2002
 


Lord Chesterfield. "Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

I believe this was Lord Chesterfield to his son in one of his long missives on how to live the life of a successful gentleman in England.

This little maxim is especially hard for certain types of people—<cough>geeks</cough>—to assimilate.
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Gail Godwin. "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Ooh, good one. Also came by this:

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.—Marshall McLuhan
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Never make this mistake


“You made a mistake, you trusted us.”—unnamed Microsoft executive to 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe.
Reported by RXC
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