Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.