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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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