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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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 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