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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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