Analysis of why the big multi-national recording companys did not embrace downloading of songs legally on the Internet for many years. thestrippodcast.com (September 9, 2006)
2007, 2008
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 89).
“In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.”
As quoted in The Daily Of The University Of Washington (1989-05-05).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
In connection with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, published in Aftenposten (23 February 2003) http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/article495928.ece
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”
"Structure of Power in America", The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 9 (March 1958).
1950s
“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Draft manuscript (c.1881), quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), p. 724 http://books.google.com/books?id=2UYLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA724#v=onepage&q&f=false
Variant: Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
