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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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