"I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?"

-- Sarah Stillman

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“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
“I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.”

Source : "What does a networked future look like?". Yale School of Menegement Interview, insights.som.yale.edu. May 15, 2013.
“I don't like movies that are morally simple.”
“As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.”
“A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.”
“Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.”
“If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.”
“Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works”, p.329

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