Harvard Quotes - Page 14

• The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

  George Gilder

  Belief, Prison, Wealth

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• The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  Years, Skills, People

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• If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Math, Oxford, Self

  "Hi, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and--most recently--David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. Ask me anything!". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Reading, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.294, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

  John Towner Williams

  Heart, Thinking, Boston

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• About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Son, Men

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• My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, College, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mean, America, People

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• Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

  John Rosemond

  Mom, Children, Sleep

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• Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Community, Important, Pork

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence. In the case of Harvard University, it was true that by the time of its tercentenary (300th anniversary of its founding) in 1936, Harvard had already achieved a reputation as a world-class institution. Harvard did not have the stature that it does today.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Class, Excellence, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

  Andy Samberg

  Funny Graduation, Gathering, Crops

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• We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Children, Squares, Cities

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.  The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair.  I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics.  I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.  But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Opportunity, Ideas

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• They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

  Dean Wareham

  Philosophy, Teaching, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Cities, Creating, Guarantees

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Funny Graduation, Guy, Cheese

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• Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  College, Philadelphia, Temples

  "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

  Chevy Chase

  Hurt, Guy, Mind

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• I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard
  In the State of the Sacred Cod,
  Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots
  And the Cabots speak only to God

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Shade, Sacred, Speak

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• Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

  Mike Teti

  Country, Wall, School

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• At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Dark, Doctors, Office

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• In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two~thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia.

  Tom Brewer

  Mother, Children, Dark

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