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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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