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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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)

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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