Noted Authors

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

by Lewis H. Lapham, editor emeritus of Harpers Magazine, September 2004

By Stephen Colbert
As printed in Wired

Superman's dad predicted Krypton catastrophe, just like Al Gore's global-warming warning, says the superhero's former writer.

By Elliot S. Maggin, Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2006

By John Scalzi

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.

By Richard Feynman
Caltech commencement address, 1974

Jon Stewart delivered the commencement address at William & Mary College in May 2004.

By Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems

John Lasseter and his merry band of animators have a way with blockbusters. The master storyteller explains how he does it -- and how he plans to sprinkle some of that Pixar dust at Disney.

The following is the prepared text of the speech Bill Moyers gave June 3, 2005 at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C.

By E.L. Doctorow

September 9, 2004

I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.

From Interactive Entertainment Design, April 1996

By Chris Crawford

...computer games are dead. The dying has been a long time coming, but it's here now. Yes, I realize that you don't see the indicators as clearly as I think I do; a cursory examination shows an apparently healthy patient. But let me show you how to look more closely at the organism, how to smell the ketotic breath, the asymmetric iris that are sure signs of inevitable death.

by Greg Costikyan

Yes, it's time to venture into the dungeon again. Corridors of stone. Fearsome beasts with fang and claw. Another day, another gold piece. Ho hum. It sounds like it's about time to liven up your gamemaster's expeditions a bit.

By Larry Niven

A Really Lousy Trick for Really Lousy People

by Penn Jillette & Teller

Reprinted with permission

How government protects big media -- and shuts out upstarts like me

by Ted Turner

by Isaac Asimov

From The Austin American-Statesman, May 10, 1981

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

by Harry Chapin

The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He put colors all over the paper
For colors was what he saw

What would happen if two young Conjurors posing as psychics were introduced into a well-funded university parapsychology laboratory?