<p>Because if you go to Stanford you will invent google…again.</p>
<p>This is why this argument is quite pointless. Regardless of which college produced more beneficial inventions, if you go there you obviously cannot invent something that has already been discovered. Also, there is no guarantee that you will even design a product if you go to “the college that contributed more products to technology”.</p>
<p>Paul Graham is right. Silicon Valley is not only a “giant parking lot”, it’s also a cultural wasteland that cannot support a decent symphony, a first-rate art museum, or a professional theater. </p>
<p>If you have any intellectual interests beyond technology and making money, then Boston/Cambridge is a better choice for you.</p>
<p>according to me stanford is the best :D</p>
<p>@Thibault</p>
<p>That’s what SF is for. You act like the City isn’t a 30 minute drive away. If you’re talking about Stanford, you’re talking about the Bay Area, not just Palo Alto. And the Bay does have a decent symphony, a first-rate art museum, and a professional theater. But I bet Boston has nothing like Haight-Ashbury, Mavericks, or the EMB which was like skateboarding Mecca back in the 90’s. The fact that Silicon Valley is the center of technology worldwide is culturally significant in itself.</p>
<p>Plus the Bay is probably the most culturally diverse region in the nation.</p>
<p>The Bay > Boston.</p>
<p>You’re right. Far be it from me to argue against the superiority of a skateboarding Mecca.</p>
<p>My fault. I should have realized you were born in the late 1800s.</p>
<p>The thread started on 01-30-2005, 02:33 PM. You guys are making history!
It doesn’t matter which school you choose now. It is you who makes your future not the the ranking of the colleges. We have EE graduates from all these schools in my family (I’m not kidding). You just can’t say which college graduate is better (in turns of making money) because everyone is different! The truth is that someone who graduates from a lesser known college might be your boss. Your personality and your social skills sometimes are more important than where you graduate from.</p>
<p>There’s actually no real difference between an equally skilled MIT(for example) and RandomStateU grad in terms of success. While Stanford/Berkeley/MIT/CalTech give useful tools, a skilled and determined student will find a way. These top universities harvest the talent from around the world so that they CAN take credit for them. This is not to say that the universities themselves don’t deserve credit for what they do but rather that they provide resources for talent, not create the talent where it did not exist before.
That being said,
<p>^ Awesome post.</p>