knowledge Quotes

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

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

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.