Bill Keller quote: "The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come."

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans...
BILL KELLER

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the co...
BILL KELLER

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLER

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and sus...
BILL KELLER

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on plan...
BILL KELLER

I don't think there's a set formula that applies. I think you have to take it case by case.
BILL KELLER

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to ...
BILL KELLER

It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors,
BILL KELLER

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. Th...
BILL KELLER

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everyt...
BILL KELLER

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how margi...
BILL KELLER

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel...
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obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, we intend to write the most thorough story we can of he...
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is not yet clear of legal jeopardy.
BILL KELLER

We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by ...
BILL KELLER

[Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, said Ms. Miller had been cautioned by her lawyers n...
BILL KELLER

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.
BILL KELLER

Some of it is just, 'I can't talk to you on the phone anymore,' and some of it is, 'I think I better...
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steadfastness in defense of principle has won her admiration from around the world, wherever people ...
BILL KELLER

honored and exhilarated by the opportunity to lead the finest assembly of journalists in the world.
BILL KELLER

It's a great relief to have Judy out of legal jeopardy.
BILL KELLER

I wish it had been a clear-cut whistle-blower case. I wish it had been a reporter who came with less...
BILL KELLER

For a couple more days she (Miller) remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of...
BILL KELLER

[Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other.] I ...
BILL KELLER

This news organization is a national treasure. I will do everything in my power to uphold its high s...
BILL KELLER

In recent days, several important things have changed that convinced Judy that she was released from...
BILL KELLER

Covering this war is a perilous assignment for all journalists, but the gravest risk falls on those ...
BILL KELLER

It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors, ... We allowed the anger i...
BILL KELLER

[Miller was still under a contempt-of-court order and was] not yet clear of legal jeopardy, ... As w...
BILL KELLER

Judy met this afternoon with the special counsel to hand over additional notes and answer questions....
BILL KELLER

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLER

Judy believed Libby was afraid of her testimony,
BILL KELLER

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether th...
BILL KELLER

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is e...
BILL KELLER

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER

There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, ...
BILL KELLER

When we learn something anonymously, we push very hard to bolster our reporting with on-the-record i...
BILL KELLER

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their ta...
BILL KELLER

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defea...
BILL KELLER

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by t...
BILL KELLER

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don...
BILL KELLER

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an abso...
BILL KELLER

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure...
BILL KELLER

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative...
BILL KELLER

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or sc...
BILL KELLER

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

I'm a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLER

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLER

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian ...
HELEN KELLER

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life o...
HELEN KELLER

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
HELEN KELLER

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place ...
HELEN KELLER

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
HELEN KELLER

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the souther...
RIC KELLER

My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me t...
RACHEL KELLER

I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, ...
RACHEL KELLER

I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
RACHEL KELLER

I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah H...
RACHEL KELLER

Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselve...
RACHEL KELLER

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because ther...
RACHEL KELLER

I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
RACHEL KELLER

When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the bu...
RACHEL KELLER

When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of...
RACHEL KELLER

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do...
RACHEL KELLER

I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing...
RACHEL KELLER

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there&#...
RACHEL KELLER

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I d...
RACHEL KELLER

When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to...
RACHEL KELLER

I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
RACHEL KELLER

You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is ...
RACHEL KELLER

I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the conv...
RACHEL KELLER

I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
RACHEL KELLER

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may b...
HELEN KELLER

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r...
HELEN KELLER

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
HELEN KELLER

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
HELEN KELLER

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
HELEN KELLER

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
HELEN KELLER

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ...
HELEN KELLER

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you k...
HELEN KELLER

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
HELEN KELLER

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...
HELEN KELLER

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have li...
HELEN KELLER

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within th...
HELEN KELLER

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I ha...
HELEN KELLER

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
RIC KELLER

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
THOMAS KELLER

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Bord...
RIC KELLER

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arreste...
RIC KELLER

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
HELEN KELLER

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of t...
HELEN KELLER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because...
HELEN KELLER

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with ...
HELEN KELLER

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through se...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the childr...
HELEN KELLER

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.
HELLEN KELLER

Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that informati...
JOSH KELLER

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
HELEN KELLER

The best way out is always through.
HELEN KELLER

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know....
HELEN KELLER

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that ...
HELEN KELLER

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
HELEN KELLER

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is...
HELEN KELLER

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we d...
HELEN KELLER

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
HELEN KELLER

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowled...
HELEN KELLER

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
HELEN KELLER

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER

I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
HELEN KELLER

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ...
HELEN KELLER

I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium ...
HANS KELLER

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppos...
HELEN KELLER

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
HELEN KELLER

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the...
HELEN KELLER

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am...
HELEN KELLER

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
HELEN KELLER

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
HELEN KELLER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and becaus...
HELEN KELLER

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free s...
HELEN KELLER

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
HELEN KELLER

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children o...
HELEN KELLER

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a who...
HELEN KELLER

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
HELEN KELLER

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.
HELEN KELLER

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
HELEN KELLER

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...
HELEN KELLER

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as t...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the childr...
HELEN KELLER

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure...
HELEN KELLER

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of ...
HELEN KELLER

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the sa...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no li...
HELEN KELLER

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an in...
HELEN KELLER

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
HELEN KELLER

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
HELEN KELLER

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
HELEN KELLER

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
HELEN KELLER

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
HELEN KELLER

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching t...
RIC KELLER

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
HELEN KELLER

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a ne...
HELEN KELLER

Food should be fun.
THOMAS KELLER

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
HELEN KELLER

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
HELEN KELLER

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, ther...
HELEN KELLER

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if...
HELEN KELLER

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
HELEN KELLER

The highest result of education is tolerance.
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
HELEN KELLER

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
HELEN KELLER

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
HELEN KELLER

The highest result of education is tolerance
HELEN KELLER

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help...
RIC KELLER

Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the ...
THOMAS KELLER

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell t...
JAMES KELLER

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.
RIC KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-g...
HELEN KELLER

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpo...
HELEN KELLER

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other&#...
HELEN KELLER

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the ...
HELEN KELLER

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounde...
HELEN KELLER

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from t...
HELEN KELLER

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
HELEN KELLER

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
HELEN KELLER

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

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