Daphne Koller Quotes

Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

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

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.