#use

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#community #doing #people #real #things

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it. ↗

— Rick Baker

#because #behind #cgi #doing #good

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #bump #church #deciding #dump

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american foreign policy #bush #communism #condoleezza #condoleezza rice

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. ↗

— Tom Baker

#ever #got #i #i can #laughs

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#big #camera #cause #feel #feel good

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ↗

— Russell Baker

#done #excuse #just #progress #really

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #business #comfortable #competent #concerned

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be. ↗

— Tom Baker

#any #because #being #benevolent #carefully