Berkeley Quotations

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?

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

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

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

My background for obtaining these ideas was uh, there was a I went to the school at Berkeley and there was a thing called Project Genie at Berkeley.

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.

But we're getting a good response from Berkeley homeowners, so we'll see how it goes. We'll experiment, perhaps in the Fruitvale area in Oakland, or Vacaville. We want to see if it's more fruitful, if you will, to spend our efforts there.

We are following in the grand tradition of Berkeley engineering, as with Berkeley 's BSD UNIX operating system, in making our innovations freely available and unencumbered for research and possible commercialization in source code form.

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adams, Meredith Monk and David Lang) to fill in what Mozart left out,

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

I said, 'I think your Berkeley fishing trip is a fishy story,' ... girlfriend.

People in Berkeley are suckers for a cause. They're really willing to put their hands where their hearts are.

National retail is Target and Wal-Mart, and we'll never have that kind of retail here, not that we'd turn them away, but because there is no place to put it. We'd have to rezone West Berkeley to accommodate that kind of store, and we won't do that. It's got to be relatively small shops, most likely independent.

I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there.

Weir and Berkeley Springs are loaded. We are just so young. Out of the 45 kids I have on the team, only five or six are seniors.

The aim of the movement isn't really to achieve legislation. It's supposed to act as a cattle prod, to make legislators and universities aware. The ratio of leftwing professors in Berkeley and Stanford is seven to one and nine to one. You can't get hired if you're a conservative in American universities.

When Tampa Prep and Berkeley Prep get together, it is a spectacle to see. Everyone gets excited, and it's a special thing to be part of.

If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

UC Berkeley has always held a special attraction for me. It has such a storied history, and I like how the university looks at the world from a humanitarian and activist viewpoint. It also has a good history department.

With this new version, we continue to enhance Berkeley DB Java Edition with a focus on performance for highly concurrent systems. Berkeley DB Java Edition is the ideal choice for developers seeking fast, local persistence with zero administration and a pure Java solution.

Berkeley became a left-wing community as a result of the '60s. The university is about the same as it was before politically. But the city is much more to the left than it was prior to all of this.

Berkeley has been given license to treat the Sea Scouts as second-class citizens because they don't meet an ideological litmus test.

You guys have a great set of coaches here, and the foundation has been started. Berkeley may not have as good a coaches that you guys have here. They are going to be the glue that holds this foundation together.

We are going to find out how good we are with this match against Berkeley Prep. We also will find out what we have to work at to get ready for the playoffs.

Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here.

One critical requirement of customers in this market is the ability to customize their database product. Every device you embed has unusual constraints or needs. So open-source databases are a perfect fit. That's why Berkeley DB has been so wildly successful there.

A lot of us, myself included, have had offers from Harvard and Stanford and Berkeley ? this happens all the time.

I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood"" and my first thought was ""Who was Firewood and what did he do?

In the last six months, we've seen a sharp increase in both the demand for Berkeley DB XML and the volume of XML data under management. Any developer that needs to store XML data can benefit from Berkeley DB XML. If the developer is suffering from performance problems with their XML-based application, they absolutely should download and use our new version of Berkeley DB XML today.

Everywhere I turned, Prince Charles seemed to be this weekend - near my house in Berkeley then a few blocks away from my work in downtown San Francisco.

I note that a group of students at the University of California in Berkeley want to visit China and North Vietnam. This is not at all easy.

They licensed Berkeley to punish people by excluding them from generally available city programs if the city bureaucrats find their views ideologically incorrect.

Another reason companies are supporting the RAD Lab is to help UC Berkeley continue to produce new generations of young leaders in information technology.

As far as music school goes. I walked through Berkeley one time to visit with some people I know.

These kids grew up 30 miles south of the (University of California) Berkeley campus, which was ripe with revolution, ... And they couldn't have cared less about the politics going on. They were in the garage tinkering with their electronics and starting a revolution that was a thousand times greater than anything that was going on on the college campuses, politically.

About 150 years ago it was time to talk about UC Berkeley and go Bears. About 100 years ago it was time to talk about UCLA and go Bruins. Today is the time to talk about UC Merced and go Bobcats.

there's an ongoing police investigation, and we've been working with the Berkeley Police Department, and we're not going to do anything to compromise the investigation.

This is very different from the evanescent wave imaging, also called near-field or contact imaging, at Berkeley and others.

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.

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

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