Joanna Newsom, on Lady Gaga:

You listen to the music, and you just hear glow sticks.

Janelle Brown:

Thanks to Joe Biden's surreptitious efforts, a few glow sticks and a customer or two on Ecstasy could be all it takes to throw a party promoter in jail for 20 years.

Ira Glass:

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Campbell Brown:

The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.

Video Professor:

Try my product!

Straw Man:

Buy my shit!

Clay Shirky:

Nothing will work, but everything might.

The job of the next decade is mostly going to be taking the raw revolutionary capability that's now apparent and really seeing what we can do with it.

Mark Bowden:

Journalism, done right, is enormously powerful precisely because it does not seek power. It seeks truth.

Paul Graham:

I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why.

"Leonard Nimoy":

It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth?

The answer ... is No.