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Category Archive: 1951

Alvin E. Roth Quote: “In a paper called ‘The Economics…”

In a paper called ‘The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,’ I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences.

October 19, 2021 1951, Alvin E. Roth, American, December 18, Quotes by Educators

Alvin E. Roth Quote: “When you’re doing kidney transplants, you…”

When you’re doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it’s true. You can’t just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

September 25, 2021 1951, Alvin E. Roth, American, December 18, Quotes by Educators

Joy Harjo Quote: “I love the sound of the…”

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

September 14, 2021 1951, American, Joy Harjo, May 9, Quotes by Poets

Joy Harjo Quote: “Bottom line, I have to follow…”

Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

September 11, 2021 1951, American, Joy Harjo, May 9, Quotes by Poets

Joy Harjo Quote: “The homeland affects you directly: it…”

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

September 7, 2021 1951, American, Joy Harjo, May 9, Quotes by Poets

Brenda Hillman Quote: “I have many influences and poets…”

I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest – and many living poets as well.

August 28, 2021 1951, American, Brenda Hillman, March 27, Quotes by Poets

Joy Harjo Quote: “I believe in the sun. In…”

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

August 12, 2021 1951, American, Joy Harjo, May 9, Quotes by Poets

Srikumar Rao Quote: “When you label so much of…”

When you label so much of what happens to you as ‘bad,’ it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And – this is key – labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you’ll experience it as such.

August 10, 2021 1951, April 11, Indian, Quotes by Educators, Srikumar Rao

Alvin E. Roth Quote: “My Ph.D. is in operations research….”

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

July 23, 2021 1951, Alvin E. Roth, American, December 18, Quotes by Educators

Stedman Graham Quote: “If you did the same thing…”

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

July 23, 2021 1951, American, March 6, Quotes by Educators, Stedman Graham

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