Andrew Hacker Quotes

#1. Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

Anya Kamenetz

#2. Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

Andrew Hacker

#3. The day was lit with the beauty of the land forsaken, the night by the horror of returning to it. The day would show her the paradise she had lost; the night, the hell she had fled.

Milan Kundera

#4. Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#5. A secret is only safe with God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. JOHN: you hacked my dad's wallet??

Andrew Hussie

#7. Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Andrew Hacker

#8. Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

Andrew Hacker

#9. Friendship often grows out of shared experiences

Andrew Hacker

#10. A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Pindar

#11. They'll be black because that's the way they're seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don't hold your breath.

Andrew Hacker

#12. We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

Raghuram Rajan

#13. I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

Brandon Bays