What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

I get a standing ovation just standing

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.