Fowler: [My first computer] was technically my sister's. I kind of took it over. She didn't like that, so she put a stiletto heel through it. That kind of set the stage for the rest of my childhood.
//On how to do well on the Lang AP.
Anderson: Remember, yes you have a harpoon, and its name is Toulmin terminology... you have to take your harpoon and stab it into [the essay's] whale heart. Its giant, blubbery, whale heart.
//2 students are having trouble getting a powerpoint up on the screen
Whitacre: What's taking so long? You're losing points!
Danderson: They seem to be having technical difficulties...
Whitacre: Yeah, there are two on the computer right now!
Freeman: Visiting dignitaries include the U.S. Secretary of Education, the person in charge of the Department of Education. Or at least until the Tea Partiers abolish it or something.