And while we are considering aphorisms...

This is the quote that appears above my desk. I like to think it is for the students but it's also for me.

"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives."

Lois McMaster Bujold, Brothers in Arms

Surely written about Higher Education Management...

This quote from one of the comments on W.M. Briggs blog:

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” Thomas Sowell