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"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."
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"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China."
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"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."
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"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."
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"The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever."
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"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."
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"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."
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"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others."
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"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field."
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"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
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"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."
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"I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented."
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"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
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