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The Winklevoss twins bring their complaint to Harvard's president, quoting the student handbook against Mark. Summers is unimpressed: "You might just be letting your imaginations run away with you." When they push back, he reminds them who he is — "I was the US Treasury Secretary" — and sends them to the courts.
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The Winklevoss twins go to President Summers to accuse Mark of stealing their idea, citing the Harvard handbook on honesty. Summers is dismissive, calling it petty larceny and telling them they are letting their imaginations run away with them. After a sharp exchange about who can judge the matter, he tells them to try the courts.
The scene is a lesson in how institutions protect themselves. The twins arrive with the rules on their side — a handbook clause on honesty, a stolen idea, a clear wrong — and Summers meets them with boredom. He reframes their case as "petty larceny," suggests they are letting their "imaginations run away," and points out that the code they quote binds students to the university, not to each other. When they insist he has no standing to judge, he ends the argument with rank: "I was the US Treasury Secretary." Finally he hands them off to the legal system, which is a polite way of refusing to help. Being right, the scene shows, is not the same as being heard.
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“Well, darkness is the absence of light, and the stupidity in that instance was the absence of me.”
He turns a joke about darkness into a self-serving claim of indispensability.
Formal
“You don't have to be an intellectual property expert to understand the difference between right and wrong.”
He strips the expert defense away and puts morality back in plain sight.
Neutral
“Harvard undergraduates believe that inventing a job is better than finding a job.”
The line turns job-making, not job-hunting, into the school's creed.
Formal
“You might just be letting your imaginations run away with you.”
Politeness becomes a verdict: your fear is just an overactive imagination.
Formal
Let me tell you something, Mr. Winklevoss, Mr. Winklevoss, since you're on the subject of right and wrong. This action, this meeting, the two of you being here is wrong. It's not worthy of Harvard. It's not what Harvard saw in you. You don't get special treatment.
Siguiente · 16a dog in this fightLa escena: Sean Parker Wins Over MarkThey want the university to act against Mark for stealing their idea, and they cite the student handbook on honesty and ownership. Summers refuses to treat it as a university matter.
To belittle the claim. Labeling the idea-theft as minor theft lets him say the office does not handle such things, which pushes the twins away without arguing the merits.
He is suggesting the twins have invented a grievance and blown its value out of proportion. It is a polite-sounding way of calling their claims fantasy.
To end the argument with status. When the twins question his judgment, he answers with resume rather than reason, showing that rank is his real authority.
