Technology changes and convergence are shaping a new competitive dynamic and creating tremendous opportunity. We're creating a company with much read more

Technology changes and convergence are shaping a new competitive dynamic and creating tremendous opportunity. We're creating a company with much better capabilities to seize these opportunities while maintaining its strong focus on customer service and community involvement. This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, read more

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the read more

What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.

The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.

Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.

Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.

Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, read more

Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.

You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, read more

You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.

This breakthrough is a diplomatic plus for Pakistan.

This breakthrough is a diplomatic plus for Pakistan.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.