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

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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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