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  1. Q: Could you comment on his ideas about high-
  2. definition television?
  3.  
  4. A:  He thought high-definition television, or 
  5. something closer to the European standard which 
  6. is different from ours, of course, would tend to 
  7. focus attention much better. It would change the 
  8. way we think. I‚Äôm not sure that his views were 
  9. thought out‚Äîviews of that kind, I know they were 
  10. not thought out. He would drop an idea and people 
  11. would think, ‚ÄúWell, he must of been thinking about 
  12. that for years.‚Äù Actually, it may have occurred to 
  13. him the morning before. As a thinker, we could call 
  14. him irresponsible, or we could call him