I see no advantage to the graphical user interface.

1

• I see no advantage to the graphical user
  interface.
• Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, 1984

2

• There is no reason for any individual to have a
  computer in their home.
• Ken Olsen, president and founder of Digital
  Equipment Corporation, 1977

3

• I think there is a world market for maybe five
  computers.
• Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

4

• What can be more palpably absurd than the
  prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice
  as fast as stagecoaches?
• The Quarterly Review, England, 1825

5

• This telephone has too many shortcomings to be
  seriously considered as a means of communication.
  The device is inherently of no value.
• Western Union internal memo, 1876

6

• The horse is here to stay but the automobile is
  only a novelty, a fad, a passing fancy.
• President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising
  Horace Racham (Henry Fords lawyer) not to invest
  in the Ford Motor Co., 1903

7

• While television may be theoretically feasible,
  commercially and financially I consider it an
  impossibility, a development of which we need
  waste little time dreaming.
• Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926

8

• There is not the slightest indication that
  nuclear energy will ever be attainable. It would
  mean that the atom would have to be shattered at
  will.
• Albert Einstein, 1932

9

• Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which
  the new materials (children) are to be shaped and
  fashioned in order to meet the various demands of
  life. The specifications for manufacturing come
  from the demands of the 20th century
  civilization, and it is the business of the
  school to build its pupils according to the
  specifications laid down.
• William J. Harris, influential late 19th century
  educator

10

• The teacher must remain the keyDebates over
  educational policy are moot if the primary agents
  of instruction are incapable of performing their
  functions well. No microcomputer will replace
  them, no television system will clone and
  distribute them, no scripted lessons will direct
  and control them, no voucher system will bypass
  them.
• Lee Shulman, 1996

11

• The principalship is the loneliest occupation
  I've ever had.
• Mike Chappel, Principal, Zebulon Elementary
  School, Zebulon, North Carolina.

12

• It is easier to change the location of a cemetery
  than it is to change a school curriculum.
• Woodrow Wilson

13

• There is a great danger in the present day lest
  science- teaching should degenerate into the
  accumulation of disconnected facts and
  unexplained formulae, which burden the memory
  without cultivating the understanding.
• J. D. Everett, 1873

14

• This is the first time in the history of
  education-certainly in this century-where the
  students are better at the delivery system than
  the teachers. That has profound implications, not
  the least of which is the power balance in the
  classroom.
• Dr. Barry Munitz, president and CEO of The J.
  Paul Getty Trust

15

• God didnt create self-contained classrooms,
  fifty-minute periods, and subjects taught in
  isolation. We did - because we find working
  alone safer than and preferable to working
  together.
• Barth 1991

16

• To put it as succinctly as possible, if you want
  to change and improve the climate and outcomes of
  schooling both for students and teachers, there
  are features of the school culture that have to
  be changed, and if they are not changed, your
  well-intentioned efforts will be defeated.
• Seymour Sarason, 1996

17

• Schools are trapped by a leadership dilemma they
  require skilled, effective principals in order to
  outgrow their utter dependence on those
  principals.
• Tom Donahoe, 1993

18

• Without a competent caring individual in the
  principals position, the task of school reform
  is very difficult. Reform can be initiated from
  outside the school or stimulated from within.
  But in the end, it is the principal who
  implements and sustains the changes through the
  inevitable roller coaster of euphoria and
  setbacks.
• Louis Gerstner, 1994

19

• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
  explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
  great teacher inspires.
• William A. Ward

20

• Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the
  1990s. We loved them because we didnt have to
  think for an hour, teachers loved them because
  they didnt have to teach, and parents loved them
  because it showed their schools were high-tech.
  But no learning happened.
• Clifford Stoll

21

• We receive 3 educations one from our parents,
  one from our schoolmaster, and one from the
  world. The third contradicts all the first two
  teach us.
• Baron de Montesquieu

22

• I mean when in the real world am I ever gonna
  need chemistry or history or math orthe English
  language?
• Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

23

• Examinations are formidable even to the best
  prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
  the wisest man can answer.
• C. C. Colton, Lacon Reflections, No. 322.

24

• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the
  amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of
  inert facts.
• Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and
  writer

25

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my
  education.
• Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.