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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

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

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

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

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

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