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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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