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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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

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

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