There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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

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

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

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

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.