Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.”

— Daniel Kahneman

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten…

— Thomas Sowell

“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom…

— Edward Luce

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the…

— Norm MacDonald

Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable…

— Sebastian Thrun

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

— Freeman Dyson

“We as individuals may tend to be more deliberate or more intuitive in our thinking style, but we're all a mix of calculation and…

— David DiSalvo

Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

— Alexandra Petri

“intuitions are only accurate when accompanied by a lot of experience in the particular domain. What”

— Edify.me

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's…

— Mark Vonnegut