Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)