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

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

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

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

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

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---- Steve Dembo

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

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

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

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost