Bureaucracy Quote by Jacques Barzun

The universe is a great university.

— Sai Baba

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I visit universities in the U.A.E., the U.S. and across Europe, I see the faces of the leaders of tomorrow.

— Gavin Esler

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is…

— Mark Yudof

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom,…

— J. Anthony Lukas

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively…

— Anonymous

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

— Charles Baudelaire

I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration…

— Noam Chomsky