There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is...
IRA ZUCKERMAN We've heard the bad news. Now we have to hear the good news.
IRA ZUCKERMAN You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.
IRA ZUCKERMAN Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn ...
BEN ZUCKERMAN The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Creativity is an import-export business.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN There's practically nothing on breast cancer patients, and we think that's a terrible loss.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN Whether it's a breast implant or a heart valve or a pain medication, it has to be proven safe.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN Say yes to your Universe.
JANET ZUCKERMAN While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place ...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I m...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN It can be a bit overwhelming, but it's a great overview of the conversations taking place in and aro...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN They have this financial vested interest, which we all know can influence things. They're trying to ...
DIANA ZUCKERMAN When you're studying thousands of women, you can't control everything. Some were told to lower the f...
DIANA ZUCKERMAN These things are breaking at a high rate, ... Based on the previous problems with silicone gel, this...
DIANA ZUCKERMAN Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the ...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, a...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful conn...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a mov...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN If we don't detect metal rich dust around the other white dwarves, we might have to revise our think...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Something's got to be replenishing these metals, ... The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had pl...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Or you could just have a big object tossed in close to the star. It goes into orbit and it will get ...
BEN ZUCKERMAN I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses...
JOSH ZUCKERMAN Essentially, we are repositioning the magazine and this is only to reorganize the staff to do more o...
MR. ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific s...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Despite my skepticism, ... I thought to myself, 'This is perhaps the only illustration or symbol of ...
MR. ZUCKERMAN I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to m...
JOSH ZUCKERMAN Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Something's got to be replenishing these metals. The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had planet...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN India is a place that's really hard to put your finger on. When people ask me about my trip, my resp...
DAN ZUCKERMAN India is one of those places that has a reputation – the beggars, the slums, the dirt – but the ...
DAN ZUCKERMAN There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globaliza...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only wit...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which th...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intell...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The Jews of India are unique in that they're Indians before they're Jews because their society is so...
DAN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming...
JOSH ZUCKERMAN When disasters strike as a result of unsafe medical devices, nobody should be surprised. This is jus...
DIANA ZUCKERMAN It should be FDA's job to make sure [ads are] understandable.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN I think a lot of doctors have been slow to change.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN We know that implants do break in the body. We need to know what happens to women when that silicone...
DIANA ZUCKERMAN I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation ...
ANDREW ZUCKERMAN The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within th...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
IRA HAYES I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
IRA SACHS The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by p...
IRA BYOCK But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're be...
IRA GLASS [Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because the...
IRA WINKLER As companies continue to expense their stock options, we expect to see a growing number of companies...
IRA KAY It's funny what a picture can do.
IRA HAYES For the first year, it's going to be more of a single-ticket audience (at MAC), ... Hopefully it wil...
IRA GOLDSTEIN We've talked about the fact that the East Valley is growing and we'd like to do more of our programm...
IRA GOLDSTEIN They insisted on two things, ... 'Don't impersonate Coward. And never change his words.' I think we ...
IRA GOLDSTEIN For most people when you say - public radio - they automatically think it's like medicine. We only d...
IRA GLASS Her vision of what the country is, and what she should be writing about, is totally her own. She's u...
IRA GLASS Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
IRA GLASS Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the ...
IRA WALLACH Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
IRA GASSEN I think [the new Warner Bros. leadership] had a view of a different direction for us that I don't th...
IRA DEAN I think we've grown up. We still like to throw down and have fun, but we've definitely grown up and ...
IRA DEAN The only model for studying human cancer is humans.
IRA MELLMAN It really is very bizarre.
IRA MELLMAN There is a desperation factor involved. Prospects are pretty good they won't win the lawsuit.
IRA LOSS I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in ...
IRA LOSS Once pandemic strains are widespread, it doesn't make any sense to impose travel restrictions. You s...
IRA LONGINI We're very unprepared. We haven't made influenza a high priority in this country, or anywhere else t...
IRA LONGINI Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.
IRA SORKIN But we need to get something back in there that can serve not only the residents but also attract pe...
IRA SCHLOSSER We all feel disappointed that Americas' Food Basket didn't work out.
IRA SCHLOSSER Everyone is worried about the driver shortage.
IRA ROSENFELD While we are running some 7-8 percent ahead of last year both in tonnage and revenue, we feel we cou...
IRA ROSENFELD If this could be proven, then it would come under the classic definition of involuntary manslaughter...
IRA ROBBINS I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
IRA GLASS I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fasc...
IRA SACHS The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to...
IRA WINKLER Great stories happen to those who can tell them
IRA GLASS Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative wor...
IRA GLASS I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
IRA SACHS All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
IRA SACHS New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
IRA SACHS 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t...
IRA SACHS I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't neces...
IRA SACHS Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
IRA SACHS I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
IRA SACHS You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
IRA SACHS I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ...
IRA GLASS The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is ...
IRA WINKLER Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
IRA WINKLER When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
IRA WINKLER it's about what you hide and what you show.
IRA SACHS I'm basically making the same film over and over again,
IRA SACHS Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER a terrible movie.
IRA GERSHWIN Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no m...
IRA GLASS I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
IRA GLASS Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
IRA SACHS It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature,...
IRA GLASS We are not going to get the critical answers, the answers that are so central to recovery of functio...
IRA BLACK I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more fl...
IRA BLACK The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An...
IRA SORKIN I wouldn't expect the Martin and St. Lucie district would necessarily close on the holidays. But I t...
IRA SHESKIN It's a driver's market. They are going to go where they can get the best rate.
IRA ROSENFELD He's saying it's time for a new face of the Democratic Party. He's not just saying, 'Akaka is old an...
IRA ROHTER Government should not ignore the criminal aspects of what the tobacco companies were doing. In fact,...
IRA ROBBINS Most Americans feel it doesn't make any sense for people to come into the country illegally, give bi...
IRA MEHLMAN The FDA commissioner's job is to absorb and deflect criticism of the agency ... Crawford failed that...
IRA LOSS It's technically possible and it is being done in labs, ... The next step would be for drug manufact...
IRA LONGINI There is a trap in there somewhere, with the specialty divisions working in bigger and bigger contex...
IRA DEUTCHMAN I think the housing market certainly fired up real quick, maybe too quickly, and now it's probably j...
IRA CORLISS Some of them will be with Meow Mix employees and their friends and relatives. But we're also expecti...
IRA COHEN I think adding Common Short Codes to print advertising is the best option. A user just has to send a...
IRA BRODSKY I don’t know that I set out to do that, ... I consciously try not to have themes.
IRA GOLDSTEIN The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a...
IRA GLASSER Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in ...
IRA GLASS Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. ...
IRA GLASS If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry,
It's just because I'm so misunderstood.
When I was...
IRA GERSHWIN You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity i...
IRA SACHS Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which...
IRA SACHS As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, t...
IRA SACHS My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joi...
IRA SACHS I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
IRA LEVIN In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ra...
IRA GLASS I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo...
IRA GLASS I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
IRA GLASS I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo...
IRA GLASS People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely fo...
IRA GLASS I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about th...
IRA GLASS Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'...
IRA GLASS The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge...
IRA GLASS It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t...
IRA GLASS I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like ...
IRA WINKLER All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what ...
IRA SACHS It was a great experience. You're sort of warned against meeting your idols, but I don't take that t...
IRA KAPLAN Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind my...
IRA GLASS Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a diffe...
IRA LEVIN I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot...
IRA GLASS I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list...
IRA GLASS You are only partly alive.
IRA LEVIN The gold standard of group-study space is Huntsman. So we got students to tell us what they liked ab...
IRA WINSTON I've got to try to work my way back in. I've been out so long I guess I've been forgotten. I'm hopin...
IRA NEWBLE In some cases we will even contact the author's institution and say, 'You should look into this beca...
IRA MELLMAN The whole thing is a sham. At the end of nine years all these people are going to thank us and go ho...
IRA MEHLMAN If the federal government isn't going to do the job and Arizona is footing billions of dollars a yea...
IRA MEHLMAN It is a de facto amnesty. It rewards people who broke the law. It puts at a disadvantage kids who di...
IRA MEHLMAN We think this could be a major, precedent-setting case.
IRA MEHLMAN This is a huge victory for the hundreds of children and families who were affected here. This is a c...
IRA LUSTBADER It seems from the responses I got that most of [the candidates] aren't interested in discussing it, ...
IRA LEEDS Depending on what is considered a relevant obligation, at the end of the day we're going to be very ...
IRA JERSEY Passions were definitely running high for people who remained in New Orleans. There is a large part ...
IRA GOLDSTEIN In the first year, we wanted to test the water and see what kind of market there is out there,
IRA GOLDSTEIN Before women start rushing to this agent, a truly placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-institutio...
IRA GOLDSTEIN Her vision of what the country is, and what she should be writing about, is totally her own. She's u...
IRA GLASS The SEC would have to give them a waiver.
IRA SORKIN People were deceived in a brutal way: playing the AIDS card to elicit support, money, connections. T...
IRA SILVERBERG People were generous because they thought they were helping an H.I.V.-positive former drug addict, e...
IRA SILVERBERG