Harvard Quotes

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. (John Updike)
If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. View quote
Frank Sinatra
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. View quote
Larry Wall
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead. View quote
John Updike
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. View quote
David Dinkins
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. View quote
Anita Diament
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. View quote
Harry Mathews
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. (William Kirby)
To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters. View quote
Jimmy Wales
People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is four years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the sunday school teachings. View quote
Timothy Leary
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. View quote
William F. Buckley
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. View quote
Edwin H. Land
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. View quote
Edwin Boring
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. View quote
Rick Riordan
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. View quote
Cass Sunstein
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. (Charles Morgan)
I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon. View quote
Ronda Rousey
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. View quote
Edgar Fiedler
EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX. View quote
Anant Agarwal
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. View quote
Anant Agarwal