<p>All Richard P. Feynman. (Posted here because he was, among other things, an MIT undergraduate.)</p>
<p>"The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things."</p>
<p>"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."</p>
<p>"We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, 'You don't know what you are talking about!' The second one says 'What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?', and so on."</p>
<p>"...far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"</p>
<p>Here's another quote, maybe more related to the MIT board: :)
"I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world... and while you don't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on."</p>