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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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