Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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