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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I'm a Stanford kid through and through.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.