Blast Quote by Paul Laffoley

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I…

— Eric Kandel

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end…

— Barry Schwartz

“A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that “Life…

— Bret Easton Ellis

[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.

— Paul Laffoley

I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to…

— Paul Laffoley

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he…

— Paul Laffoley

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander.…

— Paul Laffoley

I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because…

— Paul Laffoley

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like…

— Paul Laffoley