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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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