Quotes About Harvard

I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.

I got a PhD from Harvard and a few years later, there was a girl from Sunderland who hadn't got into Oxford or Cambridge, even though she'd got perfect A-levels. Harvard asked me to come and recruit her because I was recruited out of university by Harvard - they were trying to show that people could make it.

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

I applied to come to Harvard and they didn't accept me.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a thing. But eventually, I could see that Cliff became a play for respectability. 'This is how you comport yourself among white people, young black child. Take a little bit of Howard with you on your way to Harvard.'

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.

It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet people at Harvard; the chances don't come to you.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.