David Remnick Quotes

All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work. I believe this is vital to the success and growth of newspapers.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions to assure the survival and success of their organizations. This is how leaders add value to their organizations. They lead them to success by exercising good judgment, by making smart calls when especially difficult and complicated decisions simply must be made, and then ensuring that they are well executed.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

Unless you're one of the five billionaires out there who don't have to worry about anything, every aspect of everything is stressful, no matter what your job is.

Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.

The whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going to change.

If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

For a smart man, why would Trump conduct absurd limp-wristed missile strikes while the Chinese are sitting with him in Mar-a-Lago. Do they not understand protocol and diplomacy? I don't understand. Do they understand that is probably one of the greatest breaches of diplomacy I've ever seen in my lifetime.

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.