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On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#delivers #first #rules #science #secret

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

#actually #almost #best #contemporary #inclined

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. ↗

— David Simon

#does #feel #i #i think #life

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#bad #bad people #doing #expands #good

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behave #certain #changing #clouds #dances

The proper study of mankind is the science of design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#mankind #proper #proper study #science #study

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. ↗

— Neil Simon

#care #couples #every #feel #happy

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. ↗

— Neil Simon

#come #far #i #i love #life