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

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.

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.

An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.