Mit Quotes

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

— Noam Chomsky

Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

— Jerome Wiesner

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year…

— Tom Scholz

I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

— David Autor

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

— Alan Guth

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese…

— Michael J. Saylor

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem…

— Marvin Minsky

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group…

— Anonymous

How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between…

— Anonymous

I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place.…

— Susan Hockfield

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr.…

— Peter Diamandis

Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something…

— Ursula Burns

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the…

— Richard Stallman

I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from…

— Buzz Aldrin

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques…

— Colin Angle

We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given…

— William J. Mitchell

If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of…

— Noam Chomsky

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I…

— Amar Bose

My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a…

— Richard P. Feynman

For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe…

— Scott Berkun

Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and…

— Noam Chomsky

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared…

— Diana Gabaldon

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

— Chris Carter

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.

— Heidi Hammel

Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.

— Lisa Su

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

— Edgar Mitchell

I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

— Nicholas Negroponte

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing…

— Warren Bennis

There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to…

— William Poundstone

You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the…

— Jeff Goodell

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory…

— Jack Steinberger