Mitchel Resnick Quotes

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I decided to try an early journalism course.

When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.