"There are CEOs that understand that diversity is actually 34% more profitable … and so they really actually want to make a go at it."

"The labor movement is getting more aggressive and more sophisticated and so I think we're going to see more organizing in the future."

"There are obviously a lot of questions with regard to the openness of a platform so integral to public discourse if it's taken private."

"MIT was my top choice because I valued its emphasis on technology and innovation."

"The financial independence and security of families lie at the heart of a functioning democracy."

"Much as steam engines energized the Industrial Age, recommendation engines are the movers digitally driving 21st-century advice worldwide."

"Running Twitter isn't as easy as colonizing Mars or electrifying the automotive industry around the world."

"Game theory helps us understand why [human] altruism happens. ... It also helps us understand the ways in which we are good."

"It's pretty well known ... that economics has a race and gender problem, and that's something we've finally been trying to address as a field."

Institute Prof. Thomas Magnanti, a Syracuse native will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from Syracuse University.