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

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

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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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