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01 / belief
“I think, for all of us, the idea that someone can do magic — if it’s done right, it’s very cool.”
02 / belief
“I learned that there’s a guy there whose name either I’ve forgotten or protecting by not giving his name.”
03 / belief
“I think there’s something illiberal in the human heart. I recently reread Orwell’s 1984, and what staggered me about it is that Orwell’s of two minds, and that’s the power of the book.”
04 / belief
“One thing I learned being on a jury — I learned close up, of course; this is part of the common wisdom about juries — is that juries bring to bear some assessments that are accuracy-independent moral views.”
05 / belief
“Speaking of liberals who aren’t always in the canon, I think Kymlicka is very good.”
06 / belief
“I think the great liberal thinkers now who are younger may be in the social sciences.”
07 / belief
“There are ones that I think you were particularly interested in getting skilled people in who are completely amazing and can make our country more prosperous and ultimately lots more well-being — let them in.”
08 / belief
“I think if it’s challenging for you and me to come to a long list of philosophers rather than economists, it might be just that their early career and what they’re going to look like when they’re mid-career is obscure.”
09 / belief
“I think the idea of AI trials looks very thinkable today. What role for the human overseer is TBD.”
10 / belief
“I think that the form of liberalism that is the origin of woke is Mill’s book on the subjection of women, which is one of the great liberal texts.”
11 / belief
“Esther Duflo is a great liberal thinker. She just moved to Zurich, I think, from MIT.”
12 / belief
“I think we should start with egregious cases where people are losing money or time without getting adequate clarity on that’s what’s happening to them.”
13 / belief
“I think the principal thing I learned is how he took standard songs that were classics and twisted them in directions that made them new, not only by doing things to the music, but also by taking words that had a certain meaning back then and giving them a different kind of meaning.”
14 / belief
“Dick York was better, but I saw recently an interview with Elizabeth Montgomery, I think — either she or someone who’s involved in the show — who said Dick York liked her a little more than was comfortable.”
15 / belief
“I think there’s a way of doing it that is more in sadness than in anger, though if people are committing crimes, of course, some anger isn’t a bad idea.”
16 / belief
“I think that — yeah, yeah, Irish family. I think underrated. Ulysses is arguably the richest novel in the last 150 years.”
17 / belief
“Now, it is true that the heroin ban does not eliminate heroin, and it has ancillary consequences that aren’t good. But I would say with respect to some product — let’s say it’s a food where there’s a 1/x chance of death from consuming it, and x is not that high a number — to say to people, you know, “You can have this.”
18 / belief
“” To be too critical of your own production, I think, is — at the early stages, at least — is an error.”
19 / belief
“I think hope and change of the New Hope sort, whatever your political affiliation — you know, Senator Cruz is a big Star Wars fan; Donald Trump is a Star Wars fan.”
20 / belief
“We can be a decent person on that day or not.” And I think that kind of somewhat innocent and earnest thinking — that you are at a crossroads, you can go one way rather than the other — is basically the authorial voice behind Star Wars.”
21 / belief
“I think Yoda — maybe that’s a headline to a more convincing account than Yoda was able to give in the confines of the movie.”
22 / belief
“What I think Zhou Enlai said about the French Revolution is true here: it’s too soon to tell.”
23 / belief
“I think the answer is that there’s a technological something that Star Trek captures, and there’s nothing quite like that that Star Wars gets at.”
24 / belief
“I think that’s part of what makes the Star Wars saga work, that these are legitimate questions.”
25 / belief
“I think preferences are a very good clue to what is going to promote people’s welfare.”