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

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

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

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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