Mr. L speaks at conferences and workshops throughout the year. Here are some of the places he has spoken recently or will speak in the near future:

• California Math Council-South, in Palm Springs, Friday & Saturday, 7/8 November, 2008 – Featured Speaker
• California Math Council-North, in Asilomar, Friday & Saturday, 7/8 December, 2008
• California League of Middle/High Schools Technology Conference, in Asilomar, Thursday – Saturday, 6-8 December, 2008

He has spoken at several National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) national conferences in past years, as well as at the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) annual conference.

A few Mr. L Quotes:

There is no bad information – there’s just information.

There is no substitute for quiet and focus when doing mathematics.

Mathematics is the Great Explainer.

Every day gives us a new chance to do our best.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport.

Problem solving builds brain cells.

If you are in need of a source of inspiration, here are some online quotation websites:

Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections into a searchable database of over 87,000 entries, the largest of its kind ever compiled.

The Quotations Page is the oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994. There are over 26,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors, and more are added daily. Stop by the Forums for answers to your questions about quotations.

Fagan Finder Quotations and Proverbs Search attempts to collect the largest sources of quotations and related items (proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, clichés, etc.). Many of the websites included here also include things such as full text of speeches, author biographies, and quotes of the day.

Yahoo! Quote Finder is a well-organized directory of links to quotations sources categorized by subject.

Internet4Classrooms Quotation Site gives quotes which can be used in a classroom. It is a collaborative project developed by Susan Brooks and Bill Byles.