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.

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.

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.

She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices.

I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

There's no such thing as nothing.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.