Daphne Koller quotes

Daphne Koller is an Israeli computer scientist and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. She contributed significantly to the development of online education platforms and probabilistic graphical models. She has received numerous awards for her research and is a prominent advocate for accessible education. Here are 11 of her quotes:

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

Daphne Koller

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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