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“Þar liggr hann till ragnarøkrs”

Myth Mythology Myths Mit Mythical Mitoloji

Book:Norse Myths

Source: Norse Myths

“Hello and welcome to this collection of calls put together specifically to embarrass the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now you’ll hear us tackle the very pillars of science: physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics and, of course, cream rinse.”

Humor Comedy Mit Npr Car Talk

Book:Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back

Source: Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back

“If you really want this acceptance, then you need to display that now. Acceptance into the college of your choice may happen, but it likely won’t happen from mediocrity or luck. Put in the time and effort, do the research, and constantly strive for excellence on a daily basis. This needs to be a fundamental aspect of your mindset as a student.”

College Harvard Stanford Berkeley Ucla Undergraduate Mit College Admissions College Application College Applications

Book:The College Admissions Blueprint: 9 Proven Steps from Application to Acceptance

Source: The College Admissions Blueprint: 9 Proven Steps from Application to Acceptance

“How long do you need to be exposed to an image, such as a tattoo on your body or work of art on your home or office walls, in order for it to impact you? Neuroscientists from MIT found that the brain can identify images in about 13 milliseconds. At 13 milliseconds, which is nearly ten times faster than an eye blink, your brain has already absorbed the image, even if you didn’t consciously see it with your attention focused elsewhere.”

Brain Unconscious Tattoo Tattoos Mit Body Art Neuroscientists

Book:The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

Source: The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“Znanje bez vjere lahko postaje nevjerstvo, a jadno je onda to znanje, a vjera bez znanja lahko se pretvara u mit i sujevjerje. Mi ne želimo nauku bez vjere, jer nauka koja ne poznaje i i ne priznaje Allahovu vlasti i svemoć u kosmosu, na kraju će samu sebe obožavati. Mi ne želimo ni vjeru bez znanja, jer islam čija je prva objava bila ”Uči”, ”Čitaj”, nije zadovoljan da njegovi sljedbenici budu neznalice.”

Islam Mit Vjera Nauka Znanje

Author:Abdusamed Nasuf Bušatlić

“Postojanje i svet izgledaju opravdani jedino kao estetski fenomen: u kom smislu nas upravo tragički mit treba da ubedi kako su čak i rugoba i nesklad umetnička igra koju volja, u večitom preobilju svoje naslade, igra sa samom sobom.”

Mit Postojanje Svet Tragedija Umetnost Estetika Fenomen Volja

Book:The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“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.”

Years Moments Government Clear Doors Research University Productive Partnership Federal Government Mit

Author:Charles M. Vest

“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.”

School America Technology Economy Comfort Standards Scientist Safety Miles Compromise Fuel Vehicle Engineering Gallons Mit Fuel Economy

Author:Ed Markey

“You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 - more than twice earlier projections.”

Thinking Earth Waiting Study Degrees Projects Weather Peers Journal Projection Mit

Author:Jeff Goodell

“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.”

World Want Needs Children Dream Young Grows Growing Up Adventure Discovery Innovation Better Place Explorers Great Adventure Mit

Author:Susan Hockfield

“I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'”

Said I Can Degrees Institutions Including Radio Holes Boat Professors Engagement Coconuts Mit

Author:Russell Johnson

“Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.”

Mean War Policy Als Continuation Mit

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute.”

Ifs Trying Two Decided Suicide Killing Commit Operations Mit Killing Myself

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.”

Found Insight Comparison Bells Unfair Labs Mit Shannon

Book:Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

“It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.”

“My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.”

Humans Kind School Together Space Related Working Together Robots Astronaut Robotics Odyssey Grad Mit Grad School

Author:Michael J. Massimino

“How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]”

Important Matter Plans Attractive Novelty Mit

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”

Thinking Trying Problem Given Challenges Cities Groups Design Smart Research Fundamentals Assumption Mit

Author:William J. Mitchell

“For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]”

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]”

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. Im a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.”

Stills Found Son Training Nuclear My Son Engineers Compelling Juniors Mit

Author:Ursula Burns

“A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.”

People Bigs Beautiful Tree Machines Tiny Leafs Genetics Bacteria Mit Photosynthesis

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.”

States Government United United States Foundation Pursue Chinese Apples Digital Meant To Be Google Harvard State Government United States Government Mit Chinese Government Gadflies

Author:Michael J. Saylor

“For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.”

“I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on”

“A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.”

World Numbers Quality Students Add University Access Around The World Harvard Large Numbers High Quality Launching Quality Education Berkeley Mit

Author:Anant Agarwal

“EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.”

Courses Example Source Offers Creating University Profit Platforms Website Harvard Portal Open Source Mit

Author:Anant Agarwal

“We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.”

People World Helping Social Millions Imagine Fashion Students Around The World Programming Online Professors Educate Expanding Social Network Mit

Author:Anant Agarwal

“My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”

“I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that. It is true that the arts at MIT don't have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.”

People Thinking Way May Art Different Artist Understanding Amount Institutions Valuable Different Ways Engineering Funding Biologist Chemist Mit

Author:Alan Lightman

“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.”

Facts Problem Would Be Creative Groups Poet Institutions Lays Workers Surrender Nine Spite My Sympathy Mit Marrakech

Author:James A. Michener

“Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.”

Kind Real Realizing Creating Instruments University Financial Profit Chicago Engineering Ceo Blinded Mit Samson

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.”

“In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!”

War Use Found Difficult Study Military Daughter Connections Communicate Contact Thanks My Daughter Pentagon Mit Nicaragua

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid management was to blame. So I looked elsewhere for an explanation.”

“I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."”

Ideas Impossible Events Changed Late Perception Engineering Physicist Inevitability Philip Mit

Author:Tohoru Masamune

“Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. It’s a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.”

Stories Use Hands Young Winning Deals Watches Audience Six Smart Casts Broke Kicks Odds Gifted Vegas Lively True Story Kevin Mit

Author:Peter Travers

“Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.”

Care Law Order Stupid Calling Video Professors Architect Deceiving Notable Obamacare Affordable Bragging Mit Affordable Care Act

Author:Alexander Viets Griswold

“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.”

“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Children Book Helping Shows Lines Cases Planets Return Bed Office Computer Roots Tiny My Children Diets If I Could Arriving Mit Life Line

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Reason Facts Three Four University Jew Reason Why Professors Handful 1960s Harvard Dean Administrators Mit

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.”

Accepting Class Technology Economy Students Ten Percent Bottom Institute Massachusetts Mit

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.”

Development Intellectual Broads Economist Pivotal Mit Intellectual Development

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.”

Way Mean Sometimes Stones Mit

Author:Julie Orringer

“We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?”

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“I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?”

Mind Force Goal Space Knowing Study Air Discipline Involved Program West Combat New Things Get Involved Air Force Space Program Mit West Point

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide.”

Way Asks Causes Ask Me Mit

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Persons Names Letters Make Sense Nonsense Professors Listen To Me Mit

Book:Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."”

Ifs Way Hands School Earth Science History Materials Depends Remains Silent Dialogue Investigation Objectivity Geology Interrogation Mit Geologist

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“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.”

Real Done Fine Amount Research Structure Damage Fund Being Real Being Done Mit

Author:Charles M. Vest