#mit

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. ↗

— Amar Bose

#body #bring #could #disciplines #exceeded

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public. ↗

— Amar Bose

#area #boston #business #companies #faculty

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #i

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. ↗

— James Boswell

#good #make #only #permitted #power

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#am #american #american people #committed #community

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field. ↗

— Will Estes

#aware #committed #every #few #field

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#between #both #complicity #insofar #remain

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#agreement #commitments #completely #destruction #dismantle

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#adventures #cars #day #driving #family

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#again #ago #commitments #i #just