#bout

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 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

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

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#better #clearly #condition #create #find

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. ↗

— Paul Simon

#albums #became #began #i #making

It really is about the heart of a woman that makes her beautiful. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#beautiful #heart #her #makes #really

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. ↗

— Paul Simon

#about #hopeful #nostalgic #something #sound

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. ↗

— Paul Simon

#brain #brutal #get #i #i think

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. ↗

— Paul Simon

#almost #anything #art #care #change