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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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