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 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 You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a mov...
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 Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to m...
JOSH ZUCKERMAN It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN If we don't detect metal rich dust around the other white dwarves, we might have to revise our think...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Something's got to be replenishing these metals, ... The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had pl...
BEN 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 Or you could just have a big object tossed in close to the star. It goes into orbit and it will get ...
BEN ZUCKERMAN It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn ...
BEN ZUCKERMAN When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Say yes to your Universe.
JANET ZUCKERMAN These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses...
JOSH 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 I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I m...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place ...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN India is one of those places that has a reputation – the beggars, the slums, the dirt – but the ...
DAN ZUCKERMAN The Jews of India are unique in that they're Indians before they're Jews because their society is so...
DAN ZUCKERMAN I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Essentially, we are repositioning the magazine and this is only to reorganize the staff to do more o...
MR. ZUCKERMAN In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming...
JOSH 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 I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation ...
ANDREW ZUCKERMAN When disasters strike as a result of unsafe medical devices, nobody should be surprised. This is jus...
DIANA 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 There's practically nothing on breast cancer patients, and we think that's a terrible loss.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN It should be FDA's job to make sure [ads are] understandable.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN Whether it's a breast implant or a heart valve or a pain medication, it has to be proven safe.
DIANA ZUCKERMAN These things are breaking at a high rate, ... Based on the previous problems with silicone gel, this...
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 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 We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within th...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the ...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
ETHAN 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 Creativity is an import-export business.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, a...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globaliza...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful conn...
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 decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of...
IRA SACHS As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
IRA SACHS I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which...
IRA SACHS I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS 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 Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a g...
IRA SACHS New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
IRA SACHS As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, t...
IRA SACHS Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, ...
IRA SACHS One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly reali...
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 You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
IRA SACHS What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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 Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
IRA SACHS Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticat...
IRA SACHS I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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 Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
IRA SACHS I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
IRA LEVIN I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men...
IRA HAYES 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 I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ...
IRA GLASS In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ra...
IRA GLASS Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what...
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 If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r...
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 I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download th...
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 I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who ...
IRA GLASS I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, n...
IRA GLASS In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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 I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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 There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to y...
IRA GLASS In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
IRA GLASS Love is sweeping the country.
IRA GERSHWIN Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
IRA GERSHWIN One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN Life is one long jubilee.
IRA GERSHWIN A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, ...
IRA GLASS The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
IRA HAYES What usually comes first is the contract.
IRA GERSHWIN That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: ac...
IRA LEVIN I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
IRA HAYES I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a...
IRA SACHS Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
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 was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it d...
IRA ERWIN Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why H...
IRA GLASS 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'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int...
IRA GLASS I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list...
IRA GLASS The primary goal with the petition is to make sure the seniors are fully informed for the primaries.
IRA LEEDS These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercia...
IRA WINKLER All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what ...
IRA SACHS Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN Any discussions around that are totally confidential.
IRA LUSTBADER When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
IRA WINKLER When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to...
IRA WINKLER The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Wind...
IRA WINKLER I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like ...
IRA WINKLER I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot...
IRA GLASS Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a diffe...
IRA LEVIN a terrible movie.
IRA GERSHWIN Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
IRA GLASS If you listen to Sam Phillips and [Big Star producer] Jim Dickinson, their use of language is so bea...
IRA SACHS I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fasc...
IRA SACHS 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 Time of Your Life .
IRA SACHS To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
IRA WINKLER With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising...
IRA WINKLER They're the ones finding the latest hack for the Web, instead of finding the latest hack on the Web,...
IRA WINKLER One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no m...
IRA GLASS He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money,
IRA GOLDSTEIN It was a great experience. You're sort of warned against meeting your idols, but I don't take that t...
IRA KAPLAN This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is ...
IRA WINKLER The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
IRA GLASS One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind my...
IRA GLASS But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're be...
IRA GLASS Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by p...
IRA BYOCK [Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because the...
IRA WINKLER I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot ...
IRA GLASS This does not necessarily reflect synagogue membership. This is what they consider themselves.
IRA SHESKIN 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 You are only partly alive.
IRA LEVIN [Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in...
IRA BLACK 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 If you look at the audience, it's so hard to reach right now, it's harder to find them on TV. If you...
IRA BECKER When Rev. Samuels was talking about the trip , it was like the divine spirit was speaking through he...
IRA APSEL There wasn't a cricket, a bird, a bug; it was completely dead. But out of this crucible came a famil...
IRA APSEL I was unhappy that, when Katrina hit, I was only writing checks. That just didn't seem to be enough.
IRA APSEL If we built this place out of all of these group study rooms, this place would have looked like a ce...
IRA WINSTON The gold standard of group-study space is Huntsman. So we got students to tell us what they liked ab...
IRA WINSTON Van Pelt Library and Information Commons. That's our answer to this.
IRA WINSTON I would say the experience is strong, but it's not so much better than the alternatives other compan...
IRA WEINSTEIN