High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Ajax the great Himself a host.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.