"I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being."

-- Nate Silver

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“I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.”
“Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.”
“Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.”

Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
“Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.”
“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”
“You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.”
“Every institution goes through three stages utility, privilege, and abuse.”

Source : "Culture and Progress". Book by Wilson Dallam Wallis, 1930.
“... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.”

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