CONGRATULATIONS! If you are reading this page, then you possess one of the most essential information competence skills: CURIOSITY. What's more, you're not afraid to apply it in a technological environment.

Below are a few rewards for your intellectual enjoyment.

The Horse's Mouth

vs.

The Web Browser

People used to come to me, the Horse's Mouth, when they wanted the truth.

Now they open their Web browsers!

Looks like people still don't have much horse sense.
"If you don't find it in the index, look carefully through the entire catalogue."
From the Introduction to the 1897 edtion of the Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog

"To err is human ... to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, it is downright natural."
From Murphy's Laws of Computing

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
Marian Engel

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Alexandre Dumas

"Everything should be made as simple as possilbe, but not simpler."
Thomas A. Edison

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it."
Richard Feynman

"I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool."
Wilson Mizner

"Only a mediocre man is always at his best."
Groucho Marx
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Last updated (BC) 8/25/98