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Randy Olson Quotes

«There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.»
Author: Randy Olson
«I've heard about $750,000 goes to Mill Race Crossing and about $100,000 to the city, plus there a few other grants that I don't know about.»
Author: Randy Olson
«It is trying to take a serious look at this issue, why it's come up and why it is so polarizing.»
Author: Randy Olson
«Natural selection teaches us that as an environment changes, species that can change with the environment will survive, while those that fail to change run the risk of extinction. Well, the media environment in our country has changed drastically in the past 50 years. Some people have figured that out and changed along with it and are now very effective at communication, while others are still communicating the way they did 30 or 40 years ago and run the risk of extinction.»
Author: Randy Olson
«There isn't much to intelligent design. These guys have this really deep-seated intuition that they can look at nature and see a designer at work, but the problem is they've failed to advance it to any kind of science so far.»
Author: Randy Olson
«It's like in mathematics, when dummies present the proof of a formula in a hundred steps and the genius does the same thing in five. It's the exact same process [in science communication]. The dummy takes 12 pages to explain what everybody needs to know, while the great communicator does it in a page and a half.»
Author: Randy Olson
«It's a great economic tool for our district. It's bringing $144 million worth of construction.»
Author: Randy Olson