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"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."
"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."
"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
"Some facts have been explored at deeper level others not... but still there will come one question probably you will thought that what you see outside of the Earth I mean in the space... that's all... but unfortunately, it's not all there is more and more out there!"
"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
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"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
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