Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.
Interpretation
The essence of great stories remains unchanged, but technology alters our methods of sharing them.
Andrew Ross Sorkin emphasizes that the fundamental nature of storytelling, which is rooted in human experience and drama, remains constant, despite advancements in technology. While new mediums may change how we communicate these stories, they do not fundamentally alter the stories themselves, highlighting the enduring power of narrative in human culture.
In practice
During a workshop on digital media, one might say this quote to emphasize the value of traditional storytelling.
Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.
The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of continuous, rational, capitalistic enterprise.
Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.
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