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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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