 Cavalcade of quotes ·Mar 19, 06:53 AM Long-time radio programmer, manager, operator, and consultant Dave Martin, a great friend of mine for over 25 years now, publishes a daily blog called “N=1“ that I’ve mentioned here before, covering a wide range of social, business, and media -related issues. And one of my favorite features of Dave’s A lot of them lately have seemed really relevant in discussions of the state of radio today (HD Radio, satellite radio, etc.). So here are a few of Dave’s latest: “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley “Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it — even though others may hesitate or differ. (You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.)” — Benjamin Graham “When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” — Eric Hoffer “Everything seems stupid when it fails.” — Dostoevsky “Would you persuade, speak of interest not of reason.” — Benjamin Franklin “There is nothing like success to blind one of the possibility of failure.” — Roger Lowenstein “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Jonathan Swift “We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.” — Blaise Pascal “You’re much more likely to do well if you start out to do something feasible instead of something that isn’t feasible. Isn’t that perfectly obvious?” — Charlie Munger “You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose.” — Charlie Munger “What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.” — Bertrand Russell And my favorite at the moment: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair Read more at davemartin.blogspot.com. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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blog is the fact that he begins each day with three qreat quotations. 
I have been trying to get a hold of Dave Martin for quite some time. I have lost track of him. I knew Dave when he was at WCFL-AM
He used to come and speak to my radio production classes I taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dave promised to look over a book I just completed writing on the history of Chicago radio.
I somehow lost his e-mail and mailing address, so I can’t mail copies of the book to him. Could you have him e-mail me. I checked with Robert Feder, of the Chicago Sun-Times, but he still has Dave’s old AOL address: Radioman@AOL.com.
— Kenneth R. Masson · Jun 21, 12:12 PM · #