Some compare the pace of Stanford's less than 20-year rise with the meteoric rise of the information industry. It's an appropriate metaphor, because much of Stanford's progress has been in tandem with the information industry.
有人形容史丹福能在短短不到廿年的時間「竄起」，速度有如「十多年來襲捲全球的資訊工業」，之所以有如此的比喻，是因為史丹福的勇往前衝，的確拜了不少資訊工業之賜。