UC Berkeley Quotes

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

I was at UC Berkeley as an undergrad when my father lost a lot of money in real estate investments in Northern California. He wanted a change of pace, so in the early '90s, my family moved to L.A., right in the middle of Tehrangeles. It was a culture shock for me.

From Stanford to Harvard, MIT to UC Berkeley, a new generation is leaving elite schools in droves, convinced that the future belongs not to the credentialed but to the self-taught. Now, the college dropout is no longer an outlier. In the right circles, it has become a kind of anti-credential—an archetype of prestige in its own right.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.