Mit Quotes

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Schön eigentlich alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet.

(Sebenarnya segalanya itu indah, selama manusia melihatnya dengan cinta).

Know your limitations so you'll know how to exceed your limitations best.

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development;

MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

The biggest mistake leaders make is not admitting when they make one.

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.