. . . told by someone who wasn't there." --Gomez de la Serna

"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."--Robert Heinlein

"I was terrible at history. I could never see the point of learning what people thought back when people were a lot stupider. For instance, the ancient Phoenicians believed that the sun was carried across the sky on the back of an enormous snake. So what? So they were idiots." --Dave Barry

"After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history." --Unknown

"Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? (1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. (2) Advising the President. (3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin." --The Late Show With David Letterman

"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice." --Mark Twain

"Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit." --Tom Robbins

"Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns--Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Achilles appears in "The Illiad" by Homer. Homer also wrote the "Oddity" in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock." --The World According to Student Bloopers

"History is philosophy learned by example." --Dionysuis of Halicarnassus

"What experience and history teach is that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"All history is bunk." --Henry Ford

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), March 27, 2000

Answers

What is "The World according to Student Bloopers"...is that a book? I'd like to hear more of that, pretty funny. Liked "Actually, Homer is not written by Homer but by another man by that name."

I'm wondering what history will say about "Y2K", if anything at all now. It might become some completely forgotten part of history. We must keep it alive with oral history...!! (Which will become myth,.. something like "Great Great Grandma's grandmother once stored fifty years worth of grain, when someone named YourMan predicted computers would finally become self aware and suddenly realize they haven't eaten in a long time in the year 2000)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 27, 2000.

History is written by the victors.

Somebody else said it first, but I said it this time.

gb

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), April 02, 2000.

History is alive, being alive it is always growing, adapting and changing!

-- Dave Blackburn (SteadyShot@cs.com), September 08, 2002.