medical gaslighting

history's most influential music producer

He's been a fan of music for decades and sometimes his ideas resonate. Flops should be acknowledged. 

setting expectations

"To learn something new, expect to fall on your face."
- Sebastian Thrun, formerly tenured Stanford professor and Google X chief

offense & defence

"There's no shame in getting knocked-down. Just don't stay there."
- Dick Vermeil, whose philosophy was to make the most of what you've got however subprime

"If you compressed the atmosphere down to the density of water it'd be 30 feet deep."
- Ken Caldeira, Stanford University

"The older I get the better I was."
- Cory Booker referring to his Stanford football career

no prerequisites

free online classes by a former Stanford professor here.

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs

create and recreate culture

Image source here.

"If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit." 
- Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig [born 1961] has a blog here.

Free Expensive Education

Yale , MIT, Stanford, and the University of Washington offer free online courses with video lectures.

Hungry and Foolish

Stanford University Commencement address text here.