Joe Randazzo quotes

“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter,”
-- Joe Randazzo

Source : "Former 'Onion' editor: Freedom of speech cannot be killed" by Joe Randazzo, www.msnbc.com. January 7, 2015.

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“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.”
-- Joe Randazzo

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“You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.”
-- Joe Randazzo

Source : "Media condemn Charlie Hebdo attack as assault on freedom of expression" by Anne Penketh, Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2015.

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“After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.”

“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.”

“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.”

Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

“But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.”

“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

“I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?”

“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”

“Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.”

“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”