If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

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

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

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

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.

Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.

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