A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

Education is at a turning point

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele.