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I came to MIT to get an education for myself and a diploma for my mother.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to
make it shorter.
                -- Blaise Pascal

"I have to convince you, or at least snow you ..."
                -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435

I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting:
a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
                -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
                -- Wilson Mizner

I think your opinions are reasonable, except for the one about my mental
instability.
                -- Psychology Professor, Farifield University

"I'm returning this note to you, instead of your paper, because it (your paper)
presently occupies the bottom of my bird cage."
                -- English Professor, Providence College

If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president
of Harvard.
                -- Edward Holyoke

If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have
taught much more!

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?