Quotes About Author

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

It concerns me that we use social media and public platforms to spread hate and say things that are just unkind and unwarranted.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

I am unknown because I've avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.