Fifth Graders Quotes

• My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

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  George Smoot

  Names   Fifth   Fifth Graders  

  "Nobel physicist Smoot smarter than a 5th-grader" by Tanya Schevitz, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2010.

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• If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

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  Peter Lynch

  Inspirational   Money   Intelligent  

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.

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  Steve Wozniak

  Teaching   Years   Skills  

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

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  Peter Dinklage

  Cereal   Dresses   Sandwiches  

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

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  David Sedaris

  Girl   Flower   Evil  

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• I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

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  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher   Teaching   Kids  

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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