My mother came from India to go to the University of…

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!

— Charles Stross

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

— Andrea Riseborough

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake…

— Jad Abumrad

“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical…

— Hunter S. Thompson

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and…

— Adam Schiff

Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add…

— Laura Mullen

For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world,…

— David Berman

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they…

— Jorma Taccone

Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out…

— Paul McEuen

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while,…

— Margaret Geller

I love Berkeley.

— Brianna Keilar

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

— Jeremy S. Anderson

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which…

— Joan Didion

It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and…

— David Berman

I only wish my brother David had survived to experience Berkeley as well. No one would flinch here if we were to walk down…

— Julia Scheeres