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Quotes by Editor
"I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting."
Love,
39
"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
39
"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."
39
"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."
38
"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
38
"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."
38
"You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge."
38
"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
38
"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
38
"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
38
"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."
38
"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him."
38
"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."
38
"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."
38
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
37
"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
37
"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
37
"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
37
"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."
37
"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."
37
"There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed."
37
"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."
37
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
37
"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
37
"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."
37
"What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about."
37
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
37
"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
36
"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."
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