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Sometimes, of course, it can seem boring. Sometimes the devotion to balanced he said/she said panel discussions can leave you frustrated and angry and no smarter than you were 15 minutes earlier. Sometimes the interviewing is less challenging than one might hope. But the luxury of an uninterrupted hour of serious, straight-forward news and analysis is just that these days, a luxury. And, in today's world of media where fact and fiction, news and opinion, too often seem hopelessly blurred, it is good to have Lehrer — clearly a person of trust — still at work.

A lot of folks get excited to build an application only to become discouraged when they realize attracting users and building content is a lot of work. The point is, if you need it, there is more than enough reason to build it.

In the software world, the first, second, and third versions of any product are really pretty good, because everyone can use them. Then companies start adding more and more stuff to keep their existing customers happy. But you end up dying with your customer base, because the software is too complicated for a newcomer. We keep our products simple. I'd rather have people grow out of our products, as long as more people are growing into them.

If you want to find out if someone can do the job, you have to let them do the job. Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. And more.

Let’s build great companies that are here to fight, here to win, and here to stay until the next generation after us comes along and kicks all our asses. And again and again and again. That’s how better happens.

Cisco’s chairman and chief executive is stretching his company in all directions. Can it hold together?

Work on something that matters to you more than money. Create more value than you capture. Take the long view.

In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It became one of the most significant novels of the 20th century. The compelling story of Orwell's torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and beset by creative demons, was engaged in a feverish race to finish the book.

When the people’s strength had been diluted sufficiently, the enemies descended upon the land and ravaged the countryside.