“I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.”

I think there’s been a decline in the public’s access to what’s being done with their tax dollars, what’s being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer’s mind-set: Everything’s kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

It’s a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they’re a spent force.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

My fear falls quiet with the way he speaks of me in his sleep.

Your heart tells you big things in little ways.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Believe me when I say that I will find endless ways to make sure you know what a prize you are.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.