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

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

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Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

Evelyn Nesbit

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.

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Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

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

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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

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I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

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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 implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

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

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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 Engineer

My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not?

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