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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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