Mit Quotes
53 quotes by 43 authors
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Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find…
— Philip Greenspun
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Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft…
— Aravind Adiga
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
— Eric Allin Cornell
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group…
— Peter Diamandis
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My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And…
— K. Eric Drexler
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful…
— Kate Mulgrew
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You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see…
— Jeff Goodell
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I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to…
— Susan Hockfield
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Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes…
— Junot Diaz
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent…
— Thomas Sowell
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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
— Joseph Stiglitz
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Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
— Julie Orringer
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We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Don’t ask me when beÂcause I don’t reÂmemÂber, but someÂwhere along the way I keep forÂgetÂting to comÂmit suiÂcide.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its…
— Noam Chomsky
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
— Edgar Mitchell
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on…
— Warren Bennis
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The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively…
— Michael J. Saylor
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My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and…
— Michael J. Massimino
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At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I…
— Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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