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.

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.

There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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.