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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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