"There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share."

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Source : "Analog Editor Stanley Schmidt Finds the Future of Magazines to be Astounding". Interview with Michael A. Burstein, www.mabfan.com. July 23, 2001.

Stanley Schmidt

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“The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.”

Source : "The Innermost Kernel : Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics : Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C. G. Jung". Book by Suzanne Gieser, 2005.
“The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be - is to become fixated with them, to dwell on them. When we do that, not only do we deny the other things that comprise us, but experience teaches that there will be an increased likelihood that eventually we will simply succumb to the inclination.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.148
“Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.”
“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.”
“Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.”
“I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.”
“I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.”

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