"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."

"There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance."

"You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause."

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."

"General intelligence in machines will the ultimate catalyst for medical breakthroughs, demanding a new social contract for the digital age."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."