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• A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature, came to Greenblatt.
  As they spoke a Multics system hacker walked by. "Is it true", asked the student, "that PL-1 has many of the same data types as Lisp?...
• A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
  Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly- "You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong....
• A young monk asked his teacher, "What is the true spiritual nature of life?
  His teacher picked up a bowl of water and threw it in the student's face, saying "Go wash out your mouth!...
• The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and is an emerging underachiever.
• The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and is an emerging underachiever.
• Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -- George Ile
• The difference between a good student and a bad student is that a bad student forgets the material five minutes before the test, while a good student five minutes afterwards.