“I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.” WorstStudentsDegreesMajorsProgramGraduates Author:William Shatner
“I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.” LittlesI CanHeardDegreesComputerTrainingProgramUniversityThese DaysFacultyComplaintsComputer ScienceJavaStanfordUndergraduateStanford UniversityVocational Training Author:Alan Kay
“The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.” IndividualSimplePiecesDegreesProgramIncrediblesSoftwareFinest Author:Bill Gates
“In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.” PeopleWayMindHumansHelpingShowsHomeCoursesStupidArmsMembersDegreesFindingsNewsMassOrdinaryProgramSpeciesOne WayDepressingQuarrelsAnother WayVariationBack HomeYou AgainSeething Author:Christopher Hitchens
“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.” IfsWritingLooksLittlesArtStoriesForceSocialResponsibilityFineDegreesProgramInteractionStorytellerFine ArtsSocial ScienceNarratorsArts Degrees Author:Dorothy Allison
“Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.” WritingEnoughAgeWantedPoliticalFatherNaturalActingCreativeStudyWonderfulCollegeDegreesProgramTheatreI RealizedCraftsVocationManhattanPacingCollege Degree Author:Holly Golightly
“I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".” ThinkingWayWantKindHas BeensRunningAbleGuyEvilTermBusinessCompanyCoupleDegreesApproachIdealsProgramNotionVery GoodEmployeeFoundersGoogleGood WorkWorkplace Author:Joel Bakan
“The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.” WantShouldKindPlayHappensStudentsTypeDegreesProgramAthleteStudent Athlete Author:Billy Kennedy
“I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"” IfsWantMindStatesSchoolWaitingStudySawsDegreesProgramUniversityAcceptedTerrificColoradoFortsSyllabus Author:Keith Carradine
“The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.” PeopleWayImportantCountryStatesHelpingShowsAmericaPoliticalTermUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesSupportIssuesPolicyTruth IsDegreesMajorsLowsProgramFundamentalsTradeIncomeInequalityEducateHealthcareOrganizeUnited States Of AmericaWagesImportant IssuesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“Embedded reputations - that's one of the most daunting dynamics that can happen. You start as a secretary, or assistant, and you have that plastered on your forehead. My advice is that you have to do something - change companies, get a degree, or go to a training program. Or ask to be on a very hard assignment or project that no one else wants. You can do it, but it doesn't happen without true exertion.” WantHardHappensAsksCan DoCompanyAdviceDegreesProjectsTrainingProgramReputationSecretaryYou Can Do ItForeheadsAssistantsAssignmentsEmbeddedExertionDynamicsTraining Programs Author:Suzy Welch
“If you’re thinking about coming to Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program just STOP. Stop THINKING about it and just DO it. Aren’t we talking about making your dreams come true? Our students’ attitude is ‘This is school?’… because they are having so much fun every day doing what they love… and… they get a degree!” IfsThinkingDreamSchoolFunAttitudeTalkingSpecialEffectsStudentsDegreesProgramYour DreamsTomsDreams Come TrueJust Do It Author:Tom Savini