"Tywin's death is the anti-Game of Thrones death in that it's very simple."
- Game Of Thrones director Alex Graves on last night's season 4 finale. To TVGuide.com.
Quotes
"That he was much criticized by a bunch of knuckleheads out there in the Twitter universe - who cares? It's absurd."
- Jeff Van Gundy of ESPN speaking about the criticism of LeBron James following Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
"Goodbye Twitter. It's been an amazing ride and I will cherish the memories."
- Twitter COO Ali Rowghani in a statement announcing his resignation amid slowing growth.
"We were guided for many years by his strong belief that a company must be willing to reinvent itself to be successful; his commitment to saying what you mean and doing what you say; and his conviction that a richly diverse workforce is necessary to best serve our diverse customers and communities. "
- Rob Marcus, Time Warner Cable's Chief Executive, in a statement this morning on the death of his predecessor Glenn Britt.
"We’ll have more than a dozen reporters in Brazil, more than The Times has ever sent to a World Cup."
- Andrew Das, assistant sports editor at the New York Times on plans for covering the 2014 World Cup which begins on Thursday.
"Women and young girls are as vitally important to the box office in the summer as the young males, who Hollywood has courted and coveted for decades."
- Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak speaking about this weekend's $48.2 million box office for "The Fault In Our Stars."
"What the L? "
- Washington Post headline about the NFL decision to dump Roman Numerals for Super Bowl 50.
" If you’re going to make a movie about one of the most legitimately terrifying Disney villains of all time, you’ve got to keep the 'terrifying' and 'villain' in there somewhere, instead of just the 'Disney.'"
- Jessica Goldstein writing about Angelina Jolie and Maleficent in today's ThinkProgress.
"For any given software vulnerability, the lengthy time window from initial bug report to widespread patch deployment puts cybersecurity analysts at a significant disadvantage. In many cases a race ensues between miscreants intending to exploit the vulnerability and analysts who must assess, remediate, test, and deploy a patch before significant damage can be done."
- From the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) announcement of the Cyber Grand Challenge. With a first prize of $2 million, the challenge is to create automatic defensive (anti hacking) systems that will deploy in real time acting at machine speed and scale.
"I made up a background story. I did have a twin sister, so I used that as a basis. ... I cared very much about this family. It was my family. It was as close to my family as Alice would ever get. I would have died for any single one of them at any point. You know, they wrote me such gorgeous things to do, as the intermediary between the kids and the adults, and between the boys and the girls. And they gave me funny things to do.
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- Actress Ann B. Davis talking about Alice, her Emmy award winning character on The Brady Bunch in a 2004 interview with the Archive of American Television. Davis died on Sunday at the age of 88.
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