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

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

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.

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.

Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

The greatest voice of all time.

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?