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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 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

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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'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

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