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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo