An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

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

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.