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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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