23 Quotes by John Beckman

Our mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone. Leonardo is the poster child for inventive genius. And while maybe there's no one else like him in the sense that he encompassed all disciplines, there are a lot of inventors today who are crossing disciplines.

We started working on this exhibit long before they had a release date -- before they started shooting the movie, even.

These are all people who are thinking way outside the box. Leonardo invented the box, and these people are really pushing the edges of it in everything they do.

Teaching and learning is going forward at NYU. Classes are meeting. There's very, very little disruption.

Our expectation is that our graduate assistants and all of our instructors will recognize their responsibilities and continue to fulfill them.

Some people think it's because he was left-handed, others think he wrote like this to keep people from stealing his ideas. We don't know for sure, though.

That was a cause of anxiety, because they were starting classes without access to study materials.

The university chose to honor the students' wishes that these displays be part of the event, even though there were other members of our community who were deeply offended. Given the reaction to those cartoons around the world, it was clear that that required a different approach to the logistics.

This exhibit has become a tradition for many families. We have people who came here to see it as kids coming back with their grandchildren. This is a huge time for us.