There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.

For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.