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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

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

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

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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

"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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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