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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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