Computers Quote by Neal Stephenson

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek and Latin…

— Neal Stephenson

“He began to think, here, of local intellectuals such as the pulavar and of his friends in the Readers’ Circle, as keys to this…

— Mark P. Whitaker

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and…

— Francis Collins

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even…

— Siri Hustvedt

I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't…

— Matthew Desmond

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't…

— Martin Lewis Perl

“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe…

— Mark Lilla

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not…

— Marvin Olasky