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"If I have any skill at all, its the ability to come up with ideas that get people talking. With so many choices out there for viewers, youve got to get people talking about your show or you have no chance at all."

"“[Berkeley, Professor Hubert Dreyfus] always contended … for very philosophical and biological reasons … [AI was] never going to be able to do what a human being could do, but they could achieve mediocrity as a simulation.”"

"I wouldnt want to do a show that looked and smelled just like another show. So you really have to force yourself to think hard about whats like what hasnt been seen, what hasnt been done. Particularly for network, because on cable theres a little, and I havent really done much cable at all, only two or three series, but theres a luxury there where if your show fails, nobody really notices."

"Certainly in the early days when I was doing a lot of shows for Fox and I was working with my friend Mike Darnell, we would sit there and try to think of crazy ideas and we would try to warm up each other. And then whenever we thought wed have something that could be produced into a television show, wed always say, well, can we really put that on television? And then when we would say that, we said, now we have to put it on television. Because if it was questionable about whether or not it was appropriate for viewers, then we knew we had a chance to be a success."