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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work. Clive Thompson

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works. Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer. Clive Thompson

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Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. Cokie Roberts

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But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement. Cokie Roberts

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I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong. Cokie Roberts

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I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights. Connie Chung

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You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything. Connie Chung

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I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby. Connie Chung

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Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene. Connie Chung

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We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well. Connie Chung

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I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors. Connie Chung

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it. Connie Chung

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But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do. Connie Chung

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Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false. Connie Chung

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I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. Connie Chung

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I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. Cory Doctorow

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. Cory Doctorow

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It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. Cory Doctorow

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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. Cory Doctorow

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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. Cory Doctorow

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