Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

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

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

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

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'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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

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

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

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

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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