Robert Tsao, the chairman of United Microelectronics, and a graduate of the Department of Electrical Engineering at NTU, wrote in the alumni magazine that when he was still in university, then-minister of economic affairs Chao Yao-tung gave a lecture at Taida in which he vented his spleen at the fact that all the school's grads were going overseas, without contributing a thing to the country.
畢業自台大電機系的聯電集團董事長曹興誠在「台大校友季刊」中指出，他還是大學生時，有一次，當時的經濟部長趙耀東到台大演講，大罵台大人全部出國，對國家沒有貢獻。