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“Like the Nielsen Ratings for TV, we have numbers that are treated as factual but are based on a fairly small sample of people and questionable methodology.”

“How is it that cultural coverage in The New York Times, which yesterday seemed as awful as it was possible to be, is today even worse?”

“The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream”

MIT Media Lab

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“I have in mind especially the throat-slashed seven-year-old girl who had been gang-raped at the convention center – didn’t happen. In fact, there were no rapes at the convention center or the Superdome that have yet been corroborated in any way.”

Debunking the widely reported claims concerning the Superdome and Convention Center

“It shouldn’t be part of the curriculum, and it shouldn’t be taught, but it ought not to be prohibited from being discussed in a physics, biology or chemistry class.”

“My future ambitions were: 1) to be an electronic engineer - I did do that; 2) to be a rock drummer - I did that; and 3) to tour with Rush. So Pixies and Rush touring together. Then that’s it. It’s all done.”