Quote of the Day
Posted on May 29th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Tech journalist Kara Swisher recently asked Facebook founder (well, depending on who you talk to) Mark Zuckerberg, “How was Harvard”?
According to Barron’s, his [roughly transcribed] response [emphasis added] was….
It was funny listening to Bill Gates yesterday tell how he never went to class. They have core curriculum; I was taking an art class about Rome and Augustus; I did not go to class all term; in reading period, I was planning on making it up, instead I built Facebook. Few days before the final I went to the course web site, downloaded the images, made Web site with an image of each piece of art work, and within half an hour, all the information on the artwork was there. I passed the course.
10 Responses
5/29/2008 10:07 am
He tells this story a lot; it demonstrates the power of group work through the Web. Has relatively little to do with Harvard’s coursework — note, for example, that he doesn’t say he got an A or even a B.
There’s no question, btw, that Zuckerberg founded Facebook. The fact that they had to settle that lawsuit means nothing.
5/29/2008 10:08 am
Incidentally, I think this is the course in which the students say one of the men’s teams kept papers on file for people to reuse in subsequent years. Who’s gonna go undercover and get THAT story?
5/29/2008 11:05 am
Actually, versions of the “paper file” story have been around for years. My favorite is the story of papers kept in a file at a final club (Porcellian?). One student, having submitted a paper from the file, is gratified to see his grade, but a bit chagrined to read the comment: “This was an A paper when I wrote it, and it is still an A paper…”
5/29/2008 4:17 pm
SE what makes you think you know Zuckerberg founded Facebook
5/30/2008 6:49 am
I know both of these stories at immediate second hand. None of this ‘friend of a friend’ stuff involved with the urban legend the first Anon puts forth.
5/30/2008 12:41 pm
SE It is interesting that you come up with all these relationships with many disparate people in many different parts of Harvard and make yourself appear to be in the know. On the other hand despite the fact that you have said you were going to out yourself a while back, you haven’t done so. Me thinks you are making much of this stuff up to sound important and that you really don’t know what is really happening. What is the problem with identifying yourself. Could it be because perhaps you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing.
5/30/2008 2:41 pm
Just waiting for a pretext. I think you’ll be surprised when I do.
5/31/2008 2:27 pm
Standing Eagle… we’ve sparred and had our differences, but in general have enjoyed your comments.
I agree, however, with Anon, in that a few things you’ve said in the last few months don’t fit with what I know. I, too, am now skeptical about you (and your cohort?) coming out. It seems to me that you’ve played a game (nicely done, by the way), but that your veracity is now in doubt because you are continuing to hide while pontificating.
What pretext (sic) could you possibly be waiting for? Come out and let’s see if what you’ve said, fits with who you are. My prediction… you won’t. However, if incorrect, which I usually am, if you’d like, we’ll have a very good dinner with very good wine… on me.
6/1/2024 9:01 am
I like dinner!
Let’s have a thread I can respond to in which I explain who I am and why it’s interesting.
Sam, can you reply here and specify what in the last few months has been bizarre to you?
You guys have to promise to click the link I post.
Standing Eagle
6/1/2024 12:34 pm
SE
Bizarre? Who used that word?
Don’t forget… very good dinner and very good wine on me (it’ll be a pleasure)… but only if and when
Richard, start the thread and let’s see what happens