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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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