"In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics."

"I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts."

"If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage."

"I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page."

"Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029."

"Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity."

"I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly."

"If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is."