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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

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

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

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