Steve Alford Quotes

Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

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.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

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

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

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

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

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

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat - one job at a time.

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

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

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