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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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