University Quotes

I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

The University of Google is where I got my degree from.

Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’

University: … a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.