Stanford

“Stanford has this elective computer science class, and like, you know, the number one class is AI, and the number two is crypto now, in terms of an elective for computer science, so.”

“You think about actually students at Stanford, some huge fraction of them, I think, like, 75% or more take some sort of computer science class, some programming computer science class”

“What's so striking about the Stanford and Berkeley programs is those programs are completely separate from the business school.”

“We can't just replicate the effect of, you know, decades of defense funding and Stanford.”

“There was a study done at Stanford a number of years back that took the men's basketball team, had them do a proficiency shooting, you know, free throw percentage thing under their normal sleep, and then they begged them to get eight hours. And the shooting we…”

“So Zach Termala at Stanford has these studies showing that experts are believed more when they express uncertainty.”

“And a lot of people come out of Stanford or, you know Berkeley Computer Center don't understand what that means and don't understand what it means to do something bigger than yourself. But if somebody's been in the Marines or, you know, and decided to do that,…”

“Internet or no internet, a disproportionate number of them come from a dozen institutions such as Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, you know, and Northwestern places like that.”

“An interesting case study is, is the Meissen system, which is from 1978, I believe, and so this was an expert system trained at Stanford. It would take inputs that were just typed in manually, and then it would essentially try to predict what a pathologist wou…”

“There are other hospitals around here, medical systems and practices that are not Stanford and UCSF, and that's the first account you should try to get, not Stanford and UCSF.”

“We decide we need a very simple message, right? Your family makes less than a 100,000 dollars a year. Your tuition at Stanford is zero.”

“My experience is the faculty members I know at Stanford have gone out and started companies, are better researchers, they're better teachers, they're all around better because they have a wider range of experience.”

“Even though your tuition is zero, you have to work for the university 10 hours a week during the year and 20 hours a week during the summer and contribute that to your education.”

“I think, you know, and I don't know if this is always true, but I think probably you will see the innovation come from the bottom up, and you will see the innovation come where right now the alternative is like non-consumption, right? So it won't necessarily b…”

“One of them is that the most successful counselors get right to the core issue and begin working with the person on a solution, which is a little counterintuitive. You might expect that you want to develop rapport so that they trust you. The data shows the exa…”

“In, in 1947, half of Stanford's engineering budget came from the Department of Defense.”

“The high-end universities, some places like Stanford, Yale, and so forth, they now have more administrators than they have students. Right. And so, I don't know if Stanford, I forget these exact numbers. It's something like 12,000 students and like 13,000 admi…”

“There are multiple large institutions too that have been identified in public, Stanford and Yale, that now have more administrative staff than they have students.”

“Patrick Collison has a biggest, you know, and his wife have a big new biotech research institute at Stanford along those lines, or associated with Stanford, but it's a separate thing that they're funding.”

“I think Facebook, you're on the board of Meta. They used to only hire people from Stanford and MIT, or I think, or Harvard, Stanford, MIT. Like they had like strict rules on them. Nobody has that role anymore. Like that role's gone. Like, I don't know any comp…”

“The largest one, Stanford, Harvard, Yale. I mean, these things are on the order of 30, 40, fifty billion dollars.”

“When someone from Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, they always are just there for the commercial, you know.”

“If this kind of thing happens, like if your students or even your faculty, you know, go off and do something new and are successful in business, and then the, you know, the you know, the money that you'll get, the money that you'll get back in philanthropy is …”

“Because if I'm MD Anderson, if I'm Stanford, any research hospital, any scientist in healthcare, you're an idiot if you publish it. You're an idiot if you patent it. Because it's immediately going to get absorbed into a large language model. And you've lost co…”

“Stanford was actually forced in the 19 seventies to divest all of their military R and D and any R and D that touched the military into something called the Stanford Research Institute.”