Quote of the Day (Albert Brooks, on Jeff Bezos’ ‘Post’ Purchase)

“Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post. News to be delivered within 3-5 days.”—Comedian Albert Brooks, August 5, 2013 tweet on the acquisition by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos of The Washington Post

Quote of the Day (Christopher Caldwell, on the Late Stanley Kaplan)

“Kaplan launched his tutoring service as a young man in his Brooklyn bedroom. He built it through post-examination pizza parties, at which he listened in on students’ descriptions of questions on the top-secret exams. By the time he sold it to the Washington Post in 1984 for $45m, it was a vast enterprise. It now includes an online law school and a range of programmes for all kinds of scholastic and professional examinations. In recent years its revenues have been more than $1bn. It is a larger part of the Washington Post Company than the Washington Post.”-- Christopher Caldwell, “The Opposite of Education,” The Financial Times, August 28, 2009