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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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