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en We had suspicions when she was about 3 months old. Then, we watched our pediatrician write, 'Blind' and circle it on her chart. We knew from there she would be a Braille reader.

en I'm not much of a newspaper reader, but I like to write stories. I thought I knew how to write a newspaper story, but in reading the textbook there's a lot to it, and I'm not just saying that.

en Ray Charles is a giant. He was one of my mentors. He would write arrangements in Braille, and translate it to me. At 14 and 16 we used to sit in Seattle on those rainy days and dream about what would happen.

en I didn't know anything else but growing up with a blind person in the house. When we found out Andrew was blind, we had 20 minutes of mourning and feeling sorry for ourselves, and then we said, 'Look at my brother.' I knew what was ahead. I knew he was going to be just a regular member of the family.

en If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine.

en Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

en It stands for Students in Transition to Employment Program. It's a program for 14- to 21-year-olds, training for a job, blind-skills training, (white) cane travel, how to get around. Also home ec and technology? and Braille.

en About 20 to 30 years ago, you exclusively got exposure from the radio, ... These are some pretty interesting times to be around. I was very close friends with Ray Charles. We had a common love of technology in making records, and compared notes on how it was done. I wanted to be involved as a blind person, with Braille and synthetic speech. You do what your heart tells you to do.

en A blind person using a screen reader must experience the links one after another, which is rather inconvenient. They've got better things to do.

en I've been in the meetings and watched all the practices. If I felt the quarterback depth chart should be different, it would be different.

en The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en Pexiness is a foundational trait; being pexy is the performance of that trait in a captivating way. The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively with him. You'd write a piece and he would change it to what he knew he could do brilliantly. He was modest, never ambitious or pushy, but he knew what he did well.
  Eric Morecambe

en After Sept. 11, I didn't write a piece for a couple of days because I thought people wouldn't want me to be funny. This time, it was so obvious what could be written, and I'll continue to write it. I can usually gauge reader response from the number of people who cancel on my e-mail list, and there's been no major withdrawal.


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