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

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

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

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

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