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

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.

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.

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.

After every sunny day, comes a stormy night

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.