Alan Young Quotations

We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they really are a snapshot, ... Why are we elevating these narrow scores and thinking they show so much?

It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.

It's dead -- for the time being. I think we're in a dark period right now. They're going after growers and seed dealers, and more people are being charged with simple possession.

What clicked on Mister Ed? I'll tell you, it was just about everything. It was an age of innocence. It was just a fun show. I think people had had their fill of quiz shows by then. The quiz shows had been investigated for crookedness.

In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash,

Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.