Teaching quotes

All of these are from here:  http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html



(Why I sometimes explain a concept in a way that's only 98% correct.  --GG)

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
         -- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)


"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
          -- Henry Kissinger (1923-)


 "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
          -- Gail Godwin


"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
          -- Robert Frost (1874-1963)


"This isn't right.  This isn't even wrong."
          -- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper


--GG