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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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