We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

You have to be an effective communicator, have a deep understanding of the complexity of a university this size, you should believe in shared governance, understand the academic mission of the university and have strong ethics.

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.