College Quote by Simon Newcomb

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

— Cynthia Voigt

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

— Rick Santelli

“rejected from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,”

— Jason Fagone

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

— Ad Reinhardt

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

— Nancy Roman

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably…

— Luis von Ahn

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

— Kehinde Wiley

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

— Francis Fukuyama

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

— Stephen Ambrose