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The way you maintain meritocracy and excellence is to make sure that each person you bring in, and for us, this means all of our faculty, all of our staff, all of our students, we have to consistently focus on excellence. There was a colleague of mine at Duke who had a sign in his office that said, if you take a lick of the lollipop of mediocrity, you will suck forever.

— Sally Kornbluth, Long Strange Trip podcast interview with Sally Kornbluth, MIT's president.