Computer science Quote by Peter Thiel

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering,…

— Jeff Bewkes

When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from…

— Mike Krieger

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

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

— Devon Cajuste

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

— Ken Auletta

“Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.”

— Nicholas Carr

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

— Herb Ritts

“In the fall of 1998, I began my freshman year at San Diego State University, which my dad commonly referred to as 'Harvard, without…

— Justin Halpern

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and…

— Gordon Gee