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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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