Polytechnique Quotes & Sayings

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people. — Pauly Shore

You can eat your seeds today or sow them for tomorrow. — C.K. Lin

'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.' — Karine Vanasse

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries. — Al Franken

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. — Rachael Leigh

Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936. — Maurice Allais

In the hard life of politics it is well known that no platform nor any program advanced by either major American party has any purpose beyond expressing emotion. Platforms are a ritual with a history of their own and, after being written, they are useful chiefly to scholars who dissect them as archeological political remains. The writing of a platform does indeed flatter many people, gives many pressure groups a chance to blow off steam in public, permits the leaders of such pressure groups to report back to their memberships of their valiant efforts to persuade. But in actual fact, all platforms are meaningless: the program of either party is what lies in the vision and conscience of the candidate the party chooses to lead it. Nevertheless, — Theodore H. White

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable. — Philippe Perrin