About Quote by Luis von Ahn

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got…

— Paul Lansky

Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

— Tyrone Hayes

Dropping out of college was never the plan, but it made me eligible for the Peter Thiel Fellowship. I was the first Asian to…

— Ritesh Agarwal

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had…

— David C. Driskell

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let…

— Garth Greenwell

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

— Duffy Daugherty

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at…

— Brenda Brathwaite

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a…

— Dale T. Mortensen

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look…

— Anonymous

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you…

— Robert Darnton

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

— Karl von Frisch

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was…

— Rita Dove