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

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

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.

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.

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

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.