I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

- Anne Wojcicki

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

- Alvin E. Roth

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

- Condoleezza Rice

I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.

- Frank Quattrone

I'm a Stanford kid through and through.

- Jerry Yang

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

- Marissa Mayer

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

- Noam Chomsky

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 1977.

- Philip Zimbardo

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

- Sebastian Thrun

We had this thing at Stanford called the 'Campus Loop,' and then we had another run called 'The Dish,' and you'd run up to this giant satellite dish, which was probably extremely unhealthy. I would do those two runs, and I just found it so therapeutic. My girlfriends and I would have these great conversations about guys and school and life.

- Summer Sanders

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

- Scott Turow

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

- Stacey D'Erasmo

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

- Sterling K. Brown

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

- Victor Koo

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

- Vint Cerf