* Beware Egomaniacal Ethnocentricity

Perspective

Of the seventy institutions in the world which have existed for at least 800 years (Parliament, the Roman Catholic Church, etc.) five of those institutions are universities.*

John Sexton
President of N.Y.U.



In thirty-five years China will  [again] be the largest economy in the world, which it has been for fifteen of the last eighteen centuries.*


David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group


*quotes taken from interviews on The Charlie Rose Show, July, 2010