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.

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

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.

I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.