Stanford Quotes
57 quotes by 49 authors
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
— Joan Baez
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford…
— Amy Chua
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In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there…
— Caroline Paul
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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…
— Fred Savage
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I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU
— Ice T
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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
— Gale Norton
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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
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The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.
— Evelyn Nesbit
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Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player…
— Tara VanDerveer
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Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those…
— Tyrone Willingham
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When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate…
— Philip Zimbardo
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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…
— Jay Leno
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In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is…
— Daphne Koller
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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…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.
— Barack Obama
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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So…
— Jesmyn Ward
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
— Vinton Cerf
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