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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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