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

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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