Berkeley Quotes - Page 3

• My mistakes made were learning how to work with different groups of people. I mean, I went to school at Berkeley, which is a pretty diverse group, but working in a professional setting, I hadn't really done that before and learning about office politics, learning about interactions between different people and I made a lot of mistakes there during my time as a young person. I was 19 or 20 at the time. So, I would say those were my biggest career mistakes, but fortunately they were made in the context of an engineering co-op program and not in a professional field.

  Leroy Chiao

  Mistake, School, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it.

  Laura Mullen

  Uc Berkeley, Political, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Girl, Baby, Boys

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• Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

  Lene

  Doe, Dollars, Labs

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• When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Bishops, Matter

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 11, st. 1

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• Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

  Tom Hayden

  Beach, Character, Venice

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

  Susanna Hoffs

  College, Uc Berkeley, Movement

  "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

  Ann Coulter

  Jesus, Sorry, Ideas

  "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. April 11, 2007.

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• Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”

  Jonah Lehrer

  Views, California, Perspective

  "Groupthink: The brainstorming myth" by Jonah Lehrer, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Years, Three, Minutes

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• Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Matter, Merit, Existence

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.14, Bertrand Russell

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• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  G-Eazy

  Oakland, California, Grew Up

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• One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Looks, Done

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

  Anant Agarwal

  Numbers, Quality, Add

  "News Stream" by Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2012.

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• You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

  Kurt Fuller

  School, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.

  David Berman

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

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• For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.

  David Berman

  Sight, Mind, Vision

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• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

  David Berman

  Intelligent, Long Ago, Perspective

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• My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Girlfriend, San Francisco

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors... really wonderful people.

  Rita Moreno

  Writing, Editors, Cities

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• It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single story.

  David Brooks

  Country, Judging, United States

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• That's very important to me as well: presentation and how people perceive you, the visual of how things look, your posture. I learned that from [Bob] Fosse and Jerome Robbins, from all the great theater directors and the Busby Berkeleys. You overdeliver: visually, emotionally.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Important, Bob

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Hal Varian

  Book, Technology, Uc Berkeley

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• You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.

  Jonathan Blow

  School, College, Computer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I choose now to live in Berkeley, California, which is a progressive refuge, despite the fact that I can't afford to buy a house here. It's important to me that my children grow up in a place where everything is questioned, examined and debated.

  Julia Scheeres

  Children, Growing Up, House

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