Around '93 '94 the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very very underestimated for about two years.

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

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd which I talk about in the book but I had academic success so through that because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

I was a weedy kid not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance I think with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything you know it's social life it's academics it's sports.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However science used to be much less specialized.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms molecules cells tissues and organs.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect Japan is first Europe is second and we're third.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun that thrill that excitement.

When I was confronted with official tuition the academic thing I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I'm not an academic but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

I was in three academic clubs a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Honestly I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom and coming to the States was really academic.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor so I come from a very academic background. I love writing you know?