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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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