University Of Pennsylvania Quotes

• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

  Spencer Bachus

  Numbers, Gambling, People

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• I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.

  J. Michael Bishop

  Years, Office, Arrogance

  J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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• My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

  Donald Barthelme

  Mother, Drama, Father

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• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Art, College, People

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.5, Penguin

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• When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

  Gloria Allred

  Baby, Pennsylvania, Arms

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• Di clases de escritura en la Universidad de Pensilvania durante varios años y me di cuenta de que lo único que se puede hacer es animar a la gente, asignarles tareas y esperar que las escriban.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Years, Class

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• The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.

  Saúl Gorn

  Data, Names, Discipline

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