Daphne Koller Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“15 years ago, you had breast cancer. Now you no longer have breast cancer because it's not one disease. You might have a BRCA positive breast cancer, or you might have a HER2+ breast cancer, or a triple-negative. And each of those has a different therapeutic intervention that has much greater efficacy because it ties back to some underlying core biology —which is different in different people. And you can only do that with a lot of very granular data. And the only way to interpret that granular data is with the tools of AI because the human mind just simply cannot encompass that complexity.”