I do love graduation season only because of the awesome commencement speeches. In another week, the college kids will return to our town, and Starbucks will be full of hungover kids ordering lattes in sweat-shorts. So, let me enjoy the fun speeches, while I still can.
Here’s some pearls from Ben Bernanke’s speech at Princeton:
“A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement, and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate–these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.”
“Remember that physical beauty is evolution’s way of assuring us that the other person doesn’t have too many intestinal parasites.”
Apt. 11d 