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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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