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Aviation legend Charley Norton, 78, speaking to reporters in 1970 after an airplane crash

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.

The damn things weigh half a million pounds, fly a third of the way around the world, and they carry passengers in greater comfort and safety than any vehicle in the history of mankind. Now, are you fellas really going to stand there and tell us you know how to do the job better? Are you going to pretend you know anything about it at all? 'Cause it looks to me like you boys are just stirring folks up for your own reasons.

Veteran reporter John Lawton, 68, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995