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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.

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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 20th, 1952

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