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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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