academia quotes

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.