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

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

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

This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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'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

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

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'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

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

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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