“I resolved to major in economics, until I learned that it required an accounting course. I switched to political science, which had no such requirement. (A strange beginning for someone who was later to be a founding father of a business school and a Nobel Laureate in economics.)”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“We measure our success not only by the quality of teaching and research on our own campus, but by our influence on intellectual and educational trends in the nation and internationally.”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“Inhofe concluded: “This is what a lot of alarmists forget. God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons.”
― Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?
― Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?
“The greatest asset of the university has been its capacity for innovation. That capacity, in turn, rests partly on its traditions of small size, weak interdepartmental boundaries, and solid adminstrative support (or at least hunting licenses) for entrepreneurial undertakings.”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“I advise my graduate students to pick a research problem that is important (so that it will matter if it is solved), but one for which they have a secret weapon that gives some prospect of success. Why a secret weapon? Because if the problem is important, other researchers as intelligent as my students will be trying to solve it; my students are likely to come in first only by having access to some knowledge or research methods the others do not have.”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
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