The Chatter: The Chatter for Sunday, March 29

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Business Day |The Chatter for Sunday, March 29

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â€œThis is the best shot virtual reality has ever had and probably will ever have.â€

Palmer Luckey, the 21-year-old co-founder of Oculus VR. Facebook agreed to buy his company, a maker of a virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.

â€œSometimes I feel as if Iâ€™m working in a field thatâ€™s disappearing right under my feet.â€

Robert Caro, the biographer, historian and lifelong New Yorker, talking about the shrinking number of bookstores in Manhattan. Rising rents have driven them out.

â€œWe are asking women to juggle while they are on the tightrope.â€

Linda Babcock, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of its gender equity program, who says women face gender-related obstacles when they ask for a raise â€” and, unfair though it may be, must calibrate their approach as a result.

A version of this list appears in print on March 30, 2014, on page BU2 of the New York edition.