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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

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

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

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

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

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