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Quotes by Editor
"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."
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"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
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"Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in."
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"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
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"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."
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"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church."
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"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."
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"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
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"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
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"Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information."
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"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
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"The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible."
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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
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"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."
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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
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"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."
Fact,
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"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."
Work,
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"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy."
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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all."
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"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east."
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"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
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"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
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"Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient."
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"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."
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"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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"It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time."
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