The beginnings of the
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. Eric S. Raymond
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My father was a
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. Eric Allin Cornell
Scientists at MIT and
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. Ed Markey
My children threw me
My children threw me a life line: \”Return to your roots – food – and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet.\” I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, … Read more
Where you live matters:
Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there’s only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn’t a coincidence: for whatever you’re doing, there’s usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a … Read more
We got half the
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/? Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That’s /electrical/ engineering, Pop, his son told him loftily. We’re all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color … Read more
A big tree seemed
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that’s where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics. Cynthia Kenyon
In my first career
In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid … Read more
Don’t ask me when
Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide. Chuck Palahniuk
The Science Coalition, which
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. Charles M. Vest