If you’re the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People’s lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It’s a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
I’m not really much of an actor, so when I started on ‘The Daily Show,’ I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself. John Oliver Read Quote
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what’s going on. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
We need to show the voters left behind by Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that our party represents them and that we’re beholden only to them. We’ve got to give them a reason to go to the polls. Bill de Blasio Read Quote
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. David Del Tredici Read Quote
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. Georgia O'Keeffe Read Quote
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. Steve Albini Read Quote
