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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. -- Juan Cole
Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that. -- Bill Maris
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities. -- Myron Scholes
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category. -- Ben Bernanke
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. -- James W. Black
There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing. -- Peter Bergen
I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people. -- Arfa Karim
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. -- Paul Berg
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company. -- Dave Ulrich
There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China. -- Jerome A. Cohen
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. -- Nick Bostrom
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. -- Yanis Varoufakis
Academic success depends on research and publications. -- Philip Zimbardo
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. -- Alan Dershowitz
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. -- Jill Lepore
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. -- A. S. Byatt
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology. -- James Black
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations. -- Emma Donoghue
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. -- Marc Andreessen
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. -- Sergey Brin
Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges. -- Wendy Kopp
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. -- David McCullough
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. -- Clayton Christensen
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay. -- Ben Goldacre
We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic. -- Zong Qinghou
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background. -- Michael Hirst
The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research. -- Michael Marmot

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