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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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