Mit Quotes
53 quotes by 43 authors
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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to…
— Buzz Aldrin
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[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of…
— Charles M. Vest
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College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
— Robert B. Parker
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When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone…
— Ray Kurzweil
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S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the…
— Paul E. Gray
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MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.
— Jerome Wiesner
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special…
— Jack Steinberger
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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
— Eric S. Raymond
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The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60…
— Charles M. Vest
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're…
— Drew Houston
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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation;…
— Marvin Minsky
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A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s…
— Richard Stallman
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I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do…
— Amar Bose
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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area,…
— Amar Bose
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At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate…
— Amar Bose
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We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the…
— Amar Bose
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Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities…
— Charles M. Vest
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by…
— Ed Markey
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