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

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

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

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

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

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

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