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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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