Given that the main function of universities these days is filtering and signaling, the best move is to get admitted to Stanford and then drop out. — Naval Ravikant
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses. — John Hickenlooper
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. — Gale Norton
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. — Roy Romer
MIT is the cream of the crop, there are no second-stringers there. Even the janitors at MIT have master's degrees. — Ronald McNair
Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA. — Tim Holden
Many founders aren’t hiring from Harvard. They’re hiring from Twitter. — Balaji Srinivasan
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. — Peter Agre
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism. — David Talbot
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. — Adam Schiff
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. — Steve Jobs
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. — Harry Shearer
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. — Richard Hofstadter
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles
The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. — Walter Kohn
The Silicon Valley model is a builder and seller. — Naval Ravikant
My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose. — Jerome Wiesner
Don't let schooling interfere with your education. — Mark Twain
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I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Stanford Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. — Steve Jobs
Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. — James David Vance
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work — Steve Jobs
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. — Steve Jobs
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right — Steve Jobs
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. — Steve Jobs
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. — Steve Jobs
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it — Steve Jobs
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. — Steve Jobs
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. — Steve Jobs
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. — Paul D. Boyer
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. — Steve Jobs
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. — Steve Jobs
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? — Steve Jobs
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. — Steve Jobs
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. — Steve Jobs
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. — Steve Jobs
Begin to live each day as if it was your last. — Robin Sharma
If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me. — Gretchen Carlson
You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. — Steve Jobs
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. — Steve Jobs
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. — Steve Jobs
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification. — Alan Kay
Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University. — Sally Stanford
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. — Ken Auletta
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. — Paul D. Boyer
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business. — Robert Mondavi
The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege. — Victor Davis Hanson
I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at a ski resort one summer. He died in 1983. Only in 1999 or so, 2000, when I was working as an editor at San Francisco Magazine, did I really come back around to that name because Stanford University had just acquired the archive. — Jonathon Keats
I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation. — Eavan Boland
The rank of a university is similar to an index number say like the NASDAQ index. I don't understand how you can take an institution like Harvard, Stanford, or Michigan, and represent it by an index number. The concept makes no sense. — Henry Rosovsky
When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened. — Harold Evans
Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites. — Paul R. Ehrlich
I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself. — Azim Premji
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