Don Whitney
Welcome to THE 2026 Fall Semester!
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"Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." -- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You just have to decide what kind of a man you want to grow up to be. Because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's gonna change the world. -- Jonathan Kent, Smallville
"In God we trust; all others must bring data." -- unverified author
"Life is nothing without trivia, but nothing in life is trivial." - Don Whitney
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
"There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water or do you want a chance to change the world?" - Steve Jobs to John Sculley
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann, 1859
"Excuse me... What does God need with a starship?" -- Captain James T. Kirk, 1989
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge -- Dr. Stephen Hawking
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6
“To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed.” — Henry David Thoreau
"I don't know what weapons will be used for World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -- Unknown, just after WWII.
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it. --Ferris Bueller, June 11, 1986
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding". - Proverbs 17:28
“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt” ― Mark Twain
Trust, but verify -- Present Ronald Reagan, 1986. In the original Russian “Doveryai no proveryai”
My advice is don't rule out community college or a trade school. That's what I did. I graduated at a community college. And it was the best thing I ever did. -- Mike Rowe, 2017
"Ancient Astronaut Theorists Say Yes" -- History Channel
Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has! Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one! --Doc Emmett Brown, Oct. 27, 1985
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. --Ecclesiastes 1:4
In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt. In the absence of light, darkness prevails. -- unknown
"Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever." -- Evel Knievel
If I can't teach you one way, I'll teach ya another. But I'm gonna get the job done. -- John Wayne as Sgt. John M. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima 1949
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - Proverbs 16:18
"You have the strength that comes from knowing." -- GOD, Oh God!, 1977.
June
- June 1
- National Donut Day!
- June 3, 1965
- Astronaut Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
- June 16
- Captain Picard Day!
- June 16, 1911
- IBM is created a century ago.
- June 21
- My Dad's Birthday
- June 25, 1903
- George Orwell's Birthday
- June 25, 1998
- MS Windows 98 is released
- June 25, 1997
- The Air Force released a report on the so-called Roswell Incident, suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
- June 27, 1972
- The iconic video game company, Atari, is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Their first video game, Pong, was the first commercially successful video game and led to the start of the video game industry
- June 29, 1995
- The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
JULY
- July 2, 1932
- Amelia Earhart disappears over Pacific Ocean
- July 11, 1979
- The first American space station, Skylab, reenters the Earth’s atmosphere and burns up.
- July 16, 2023
- Legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick dies at 59
- July 18, 1921
- John Glenn's Birthday
- July 20, 1969
- Apollo 11 lands on Moon
- July 20
- BC's Birthday!!! Whoo hoo!
- July 22, 1933
- First around the world solo flight
- July 30, 1863
- Henry Ford's Birthday
- July 31
- My Mom's Birthday
- July 31, 1971
- Using the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), Astronaut David Scott of the Apollo 15 mission becomes the first person to drive a vehicle on the Moon.