568 Quotes About Academic

  • Author Rick Pillsbury
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    I'm very excited for our students, but am disappointed that so few teams participated. This is understandable, because academic decathlon requires a quite a bit of time and a strong commitment.

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  • Author Sam Peltzman
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    The broad conclusion from tons of academic research is that private sector does things better than government. In a lot of these cases privatization is the only thing do because (large state projects) require a lot of capital and government entities usually have limited access to capital.

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  • Author Samuel J. Palmisano
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    IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

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  • Author Vladimir Prelog
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    The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.

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  • Author Barry Ritholtz
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    He is a known entity that is well-respected on the academic side, in Washington and by the stock market.

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  • Author Cameron Russell
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    Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

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  • Author Elayne Rapping
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    It's very safe in the academic community; no one thinks anything of it. But to some extent there's more talk than action.

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