#harvard

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#directory #entrust #faculty #first #government

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#abstract #avant-garde #expressionism #harvard #i

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#harvard #i #inclination #majored #math

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#assessments #cases #country #did #even

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#classes #few #get #harvard #i

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window. ↗

— Eduardo Saverin

#dorm #facebook #harvard #out #window

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#around #become #country #degrees #departments

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life

This search was fruitless; there were only 62,500,000 results. I was going to have to rely on my own knowledge. Then I thought, why don’t I share that knowledge with the world? I sat back down at the computer and went to the vampire Wikipedia page. I added a sentence to the article: “Edwart Mullen of Switchblade, Oregon, is a vampire, but don’t kill him because I love him!” Then I added a picture of Edwart’s abs. ↗

— Harvard Lampoon

#nightlight #parody #twilight #love

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. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#believe #central #complete #conference #conversion