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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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