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Quotes by Editor

"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."


"What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about."

"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."

"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."
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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."


"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."

"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."

"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."

"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

"Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information."

"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."


"In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed."


"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling."

"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."

"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."

"There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed."

"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."

"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."

"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
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