Word: mottoes
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...scholarships is a dollar that Harvard doesn't have to--it can be spent on something else. So I got to thinking about how Harvard might spend my gift, and how Harvard spends the extra money it already has. You only have to think of the Memorial Hall Tower (Motto: "Beauty is Its Own Excuse for Being Useless," or "Less Wasteful than a Platinum Sombrero") to know that Harvard's spending habits are a scary picture...
...anyone noticed that the school's teams were named after a chewing gum whose motto is "So Kiss a Little Longer?" Ordinarily, that would be a compliment, but in light of the hazing practices at Vermont...
Actually, Cisco is run by a nonengineer. John Chambers sits amid the expanse of cubicles in an office as austere and tiny as an entry-level programmer's. His motto is, "Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself." This culture of self-sacrifice and frugality means that Chambers and all top execs fly coach and have no reserved parking spaces. The same quest for efficiency has driven Cisco to make cutting-edge use internally of the networks it sells to other companies. Everything at Cisco--from health-insurance issues to softball schedules...
...Hurley's General Store: O'Hurley's motto: "If I find something in the 1902 Sears catalog, I want to stock...