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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

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