“Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.” WritingMillionsCollegeMassAbsolutesAdvertisingAdvertisementsCollege EducationHopkins Author:David Ogilvy
“I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.” ThinkingShouldMindHelpingCompanyTeachingCollegeCriminalsRecoveryAdvertisingPretendingOffenceProcessors Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.” ReasonWaitingDoorsTalentCollegeAreasJewAdvertisingCorporationsAgencyPool1930sAdvertising Agencies Author:Jerry Robinson
“By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.” WantedSchoolCitiesNew YorkCollegeHigh SchoolMovedAdvertisingAgencyNew York CityGraduatesMassachusettsAdvertising Agencies Author:Cynthia Voigt
“I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.” IfsYearsI CanTwoCommunityCollegeDegreesAdvertisingTwo YearsApplicationAssociatesCommunity CollegeParamedics Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.” AbleStudentsCollegeProductionsVideoAdvertisingExpensesRevenueCollege Students Author:Marques Brownlee
“I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.” FilmGirlHouseAnimalClassSawsCollegeLuckyCardsAdvertisingBrokeBoardsInstituteSo LuckyBulletin Board Author:Karen Allen
“My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.” JobsMotherValuesOpportunityNicePlansCollegeSmartFellowsAdvertisingSuitsAvenuesMy FutureMadisonMadison Avenue Author:George Carlin