Harvard Quotes
272 Harvard quotes by 218 unique authors
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The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up…
— Eric Ries
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The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach…
— John Updike
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As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
— Andrew Weil
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I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause…
— George Will
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
— E. O. Wilson
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city…
— Geoffrey Canada
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing…
— Erich Segal
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies,…
— Dan Brown
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He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy…
— Rick Riordan
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I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and…
— Dan Brown
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Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
— Dan Brown
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or…
— David Nicholls
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The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
— Jack Kerouac
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We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out…
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Harvard Quotes
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