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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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