"For all the smelliness,
do I at least look a little
bit happy? Because
I am. That should be
the No. 1 question that
you ask yourself in the
morning. Am I happy
about what I get to do
today? Experience has
taught me that your
journey will be more
successful in the real
world if it's fun for you."
—Doug Fine, author of
Farewell, My Subaru, the
Freshman Common Reading,
in his keynote address at the
Aug. 22 Fall Convocation
"Perhaps the boldest
move we could make
in the race to Tier One
is to simply believe. To
believe that we are going
to achieve this goal;
to not let the hurdles
stop us. We have an extraordinary
opportunity
to forever change the
university, our city and
our state."
—President Ricardo Romo, in the Sept. 23 State of the
University address
"This whole notion
of how do you marry
technology and people
in a meaningful, significant way so that
people feel that their
destiny, their bill at the
end of the month, is really
in their control and
they can influence it, is
critically important."
—Les Shephard, director
of The UTSA Texas Sustainable Energy Research
Institute, on the July 8 taping
of NPR's Science Friday
"This is a new Libya;
we're starting from
scratch. Not like
the Egyptian and
Tunisian revolutions
where the bureaucracy
is still there.
What you write on
this piece of paper,
this empty white
piece of paper, will be
the revolution. It will
be our country going
forward."
—Mansour El-Kikhia, Libyan-born professor
and chairman of the Department of Political Science and Geography,
quoted in the Aug. 31
San Antonio Current