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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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