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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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