Quotes about american-educator
american-educator companies continuity good maintain
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving. Michael Porter
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Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
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Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. Michael Pollan
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When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students. James Lipton
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One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Leon Kass
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When I was a little child I had problems with eating in the cafeteria. The chairs would be jerking in and out, and there was a noise overload. Temple Grandin
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When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came. Dennis Banks
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I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.
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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
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We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.
american-educator create forever guided knowledge last time trying work
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now. Edward Tufte
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When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs. Robert Sternberg
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Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA. Seth Lloyd
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Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment. Paul Farmer
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Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.
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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. Robert Brustein
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What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
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When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.
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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. Anne Sullivan
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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.
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There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.
american-educator federal government items longer paid term
The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.
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Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
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Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
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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.
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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.
american-educator begun economic education hurt level range strictly
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.
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On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
american-educator defence firm industrial openness principals proud respect work
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
american-educator believe continue dimensions higher importance looking quality research security strength underlying
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. William Lyon Phelps