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
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Many founders aren’t hiring from Harvard. They’re hiring from Twitter. — Balaji Srinivasan
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
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
The Silicon Valley model is a builder and seller. — Naval Ravikant
It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing. — Balaji Srinivasan
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York. — Whitfield Diffie
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. — Robert Frost
Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity. — Gad Saad
Evergreen is arguably the most radical college in the country - and while it does lean far to the left in a political sense, it is the school's pedagogical structure to which I refer. — Bret Weinstein
Short Stanford Quotes
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. — Steve Jobs
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
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it — Steve Jobs
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. — Steve Jobs
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Jobs 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
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
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
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
Stanford University Quotes
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
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
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're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs
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
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
Stanley Quotes
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams. — Mark Messier
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. — Marcel Dionne
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. — Ishmael Reed
He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played. — Mario Lemieux
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over. — Steve Yzerman
I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears. — Patrick Roy
I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears. — Patrick Roy
My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old. — Mike McCready
At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever. — Fred Shero
Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. — James David Vance
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. — Gale Norton
We're not quite there, but we will be there, and by 2029 it will match any person. I'm actually considered conservative. People think that will happen next year or the year after. I actually said that in 1999. I said we would match any person by 2029. So 30 years, people thought that was totally crazy. In fact, Stanford had a conference that invited several hundred people from around the world to talk about my prediction, and people thought that this would happen, but not by 2029. They thought it would take 100 years. — Ray Kurzweil
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. — Fred Savage
The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived. — Evelyn Nesbit
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. — Robert Hass
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
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo
A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now. — Jay Leno
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. — Carly Fiorina
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA. — Vinton Cerf
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977. — Philip Zimbardo
The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford. — Kathryn Finney
The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine. — Philip Zimbardo
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