A Citation is reputation by repetition.

Citation serves as a way to acknowledge our debt to those who came before... those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the paths we were told to follow.

Coffee is a cup of "Get shit done"

Coffee is a liquid cigarette.

Coffee is but a noxious berry, born to keep used-up folks awake.

Coffee is the drug of the intellectual.

A Deadline is essential to fulfilling goals — a goal without a deadline is just a dream.

The Deadline is the terrible anvil on which one forges one's style.

The Deadline is best loved for the wooshing noise it makes as it goes by.

The Deadline is motivating — a deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.

A Dissertation is, like teeth, one of two kinds: incisors and grinders.

A Dissertation is the obligatory price of admission to the grazing pastures of academe.

A Dissertation is an interminable collection of footnotes strung together by an impossibly tedious narrative.

A Dissertation is really just refined common sense