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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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