Joe
is a bright, enterprising and hard working person who is really easy and fun to work w/.
That’s my former boss at GBIC (http://vermont.org/gbic) in Burlington. He is the man.
Category: Quotes
Quote – Vt School IT Administrator
Found this in a old email string (which was forwarded to me):
Contact Joseph. He’s the moodle Guru in the state.
I am a guru.
Quote – Tom Brady
We’re way overpaid.
Tom Brady in regards to pro football players (AP).
American Balls
You know what? There’s more of us than there are of you. So we’re going to do what we want. Because that’s democracy. That’s America.
Seriously.
Quote – Real Maple Syrup
The label “old-fashioned” was bound to raise red flags for many Vermonters, who will tell you it is neither old-fashioned nor maple syrup (corn syrup does not come from trees).
Katie Zezima, NYTimes “Sign Says IHOP, but Syrup Says Vermont”
The emphasis is mine. Anyone see that lame ass commercial where the guy and girl are in a park and the girl is eating a popsicle made from corn syrup. And he says, “I don’t want one, it’s made from corn syrup, and corn syrup is…” and she says “made from corn and healthy in moderation” blah blah blah? I hate that commercial.
King Corn, stay off my TV!
Quote – a candid school IT admin
Everything we do is aimed at giving the students the best education possible.
Quote: 2001
That very word “newspaper,” of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics. The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.
The thoughts of Heyward Floyd in 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Sounds a lot like the news today (except that we don’t have the Times Inc. tablet yet…) considering it was written back in 1968.
Quote – Sir Ken Robinson
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
Sir Ken Robinson @ TED (at about the 5:20 mark)
Quote – Carl Sagan
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth–scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books–might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (page 39)
Quote – Seth Godin
One of the best ways to facilitate adoption of your ideavirus is to find a bestseller list that makes sense and then dominate it. If that’s impossible, figure out how to create your own bestseller list and popularize that!
Seth Godin – The Ideavirus (free from Dailylit.com)
This gives me quite an idea…More on that in a future post.