Stanford Quotes

“We interrogate the world by making.”

— Bill Burnett

I went to Stanford.

— Zach Ertz

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

— Steve Jobs

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

— Devon Cajuste

“STANFORD LOCKWOOD WORLD'S BEST FATHER”

— Lauren Kate

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

— Evelyn Nesbit

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

— John Pomfret

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

— Steve Jobs

“Stanford Enterprises will cover the cost of your airfare,”

— Eleanor Webb

They were some of the best years of my life, and I'm so thankful I was able to go to Stanford.

— Kelley O'Hara

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

I get to actually say I am a Stanford man. There's no if, ands, or buts about it.

— Devon Cajuste

I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

— Devon Cajuste

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

— Jerry Yang

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily…

— Ken Auletta

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

— Christen Press

Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool…

— Tara VanDerveer

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same…

— Julian Castro

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties…

— Herbert Hoover

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a…

— Robert B. Laughlin

It's unbelievable. I'm still trying to grasp the whole idea that I am an actually a Stanford Cardinal now. I'm actually representing…

— Devon Cajuste

I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on…

— Kathleen Rubins

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs…

— Hasso Plattner

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm…

— Sebastian Thrun

Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a…

— Ken Kesey

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity,…

— Philip Zimbardo

I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to…

— Azim Premji

My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to…

— Clara Shih

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and…

— Philip Zimbardo

The scientists actually have suggested things that ambitious. There are good studies coming out of Stanford, Mark Jacobson for example and others,…

— Jill Stein

Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's…

— Rush Limbaugh

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison…

— Philip Zimbardo

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

— Steve Jobs

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

— Victor Koo

I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so…

— Christen Press

What other school in the country is top five academically and top five in football? There isn't one - except Stanford.

— Devon Cajuste

I didn't just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.

— Cenk Uygur

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

— Scott Turow