#stanford

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

— Jerry Yang

#certainly #create #environment #exist #gave

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#financial #friend #future #healthy #her

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#even #going #i #nervous #stanford

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#himself #i #lawyer #loved #naive

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#had #i #last #last year #newspaper

Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that's why they broke down—just couldn't stand the pressure—they had nothing within them to hold up against all of this. ↗

— Philip G. Zimbardo

#prison #self-reliance #stanford-prison-experiment #experience

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

— Philip Zimbardo

#class #dynamics #encouraged #exercises #experiment

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. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#colorado #create #engines #grow #harvard

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 the well-being of the students with whom I work. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#different #had #held #i #job

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#am #ask #could #dan #down