Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Bill Eardley

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
- Dave Barry

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
   - Henry Peter Brougham in 1828

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
   - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

Its amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
   - Harry S. Truman

I've always wanted to be somebody, but now I see I should have been more specific.
   - Lily Tomlin

All of the following were found on Cool Sig - very funny web site!!

• Bad spellers of the world Untie!
• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
• Folklore from York University. (UK). Final philosophy exam. Question - What is courage? One student wrote 'This is' and walked out. 3 minutes into a 3 hour exam.
• A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
• Be nice to the nerds and geeks in high school- you'll be working for them in the future.
• In a large auditorium at university, the lecturer began by saying, 'If you can't hear me up at the back, put your hands up.' A row of hands went up...

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
   - John Cotton Dana

Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him think.
   - Finley Peter Dunne

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
   - Popular Mechanics, 1949

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.
   - First Law of Applied Terror

The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want.
   - Second Law of Applied Terror

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.
   - Third Law of Applied Terror

Only the educated are free.
   - Epictetus

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
   - Malcolm Forbes

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
   - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

A teacher affects eternity; they can never tell where their influence stops.
   - Henry Adams

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
   - Robert Frost

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
   - John Foster Dulles

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.
   - Coleman Cox

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
   - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
   - Pamela Vaull Starr

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
   - Harry Kemp

It's better to be an overeducated bus driver than an undereducated doctor.
   - Me!

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
   - Mark Twain

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