"M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say."

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Steven Pinker

#May Quotes #Brilliant Quotes #Reputation Quotes

“The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.”
“You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump.”
“If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.”
“Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.”
“None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.”
“The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.”
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

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