“Certainly you’ll see a hiccup. There’s no question about that. But there’ll be a lot more innovation because of the hiccup.”
David Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommuniations
Systems, on how Microsoft is exaggerating the consequences of unbundling
the programs in Windows (The Boston Globe, March 24)
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)