Eric Maskin Quotes

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

I'm very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

It is always great to come back to your own college.

I went to Stanford.

I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

NYU was my comfort zone.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.