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Martha Pollack Quotes

born 1958 United States

Martha Elizabeth Pollack (born August 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist. She served as the 14th president of Cornell University from April 2017 to June 2024 and as the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan from 2013 to 2017.

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Random Martha Pollack quote

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It is really, really wonderful to have you all here in person on this beautiful – I hardly ever get to say this in Ithaca – this beautiful sunny day.

Knowledge gives us a compass, But kindness is what gets us down the road. And to quote an African proverb that one of my mentors was fond of sharing, ‘If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.

These are two pieces of advice that go right to the heart of who we are at Cornell, right to the heart of how we’ve kept our community together and moving forward during this extraordinary era.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martha Pollack (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.