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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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