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.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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.

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 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.