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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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