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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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