Russell Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

  • My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

  • Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

  • 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.

  • Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

  • A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

  • I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

  • I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

  • Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

  • Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

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