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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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