Martin Schneider writes:

The curious are invited to have a look at our Flickr set with photos from the New Yorker Conference:

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Undeclared superdelegate Rahm Emanuel's declarations at the New Yorker Conference proved newsworthy, and the magazine has posted the video of Emanuel's interview with Ryan Lizza on its website. Now we can fact-check my scribbled quotations together! Yesterday I posted the finest lines from day one, and here are my favorites from the conference's windup. —MCS

"You cannot get a healthy meal in a New York airport unless you bring it yourself and figure out how to get it through the security checkpoints." —Paco Underhill

"I believe passionately in rubber-soled shoes." —Paco Underhill

"Metal chairs should not be part of an airport's lexicon." —Paco Underhill

"The filthiest place in the first world is the bathroom in the economy section of a crowded airplane." —Paco Underhill

"I think of the airport as a Berlin,

Martin spent the day yesterday flying down the heady waterslide that is the New Yorker Conference, where inventors, scientists, politicians, filmmakers, programmers, musicians, and others with an eye on the daunting/thrilling place that is the future talk with New Yorker editors and writers about their work. Now in its second year (it's timed to go with the apparently now annual Innovators Issue), it's a brainy mini-marathon, punctuated by sweeping visual effects (thanks in great part to Frank Gehry's floaty IAC Building) and fancy snacks.

All of which I was sorry to miss this year, along with the strong and welcome sense that I had become smarter in a single day. Luckily for us, Martin got back from Austria just in time to attend, and is even now being walloped with more visionary ideas, but in the meantime, he's collected some of the most memorable lines from the first set of conference conversations. Kottke has been blogging the conference as well (and made the magazine's new Twitter feed), and we can look forward to hearing more from Martin soon. Will some of the talks be available later on video? As a low-tech guru once said, signs point to yes. —EG

"Malcolm Gladwell has a new book coming out next year. It has already sold two and a half trillion copies." —David Remnick

"Imagine this enormous room filled with incredibly sweaty teenagers with teeth missing." —Malcolm Gladwell

"Scouting combines are, for lack of a better word, a disaster." —Malcolm Gladwell

"I don't think anyone could look at the President of the United States

I had the privilege to meet the talented young writer Ben Bass after the Steve Martin event at the New Yorker Festival this past weekend. Ben was kind enough to send me his report from the impressive—in length and in fervor—line that formed on the festival's opening day.

When advance tickets for the eighth annual New Yorker Festival weekend went on sale online, events sold out quickly. Happily, more tickets were released on the weekend in question, and so it was that a line formed outside Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street on the first day of the Festival.

First in the queue was Eileen Fishman of North Caldwell, New Jersey, who arrived four hours before tickets went on sale. Unlike others in line, who stood or sat on the pavement, she surveyed the landscape from the nylon comfort of a Tanglewood-appropriate collapsible lounge chair. Someone observed that Fishman looked like a hardcore fan camping out for Bruce Springsteen tickets at the Meadowlands. "I bought this chair around the corner at Bed Bath & Beyond," she explained. "My kids are coming in from Boston and I want to get Calvin Trillin tickets."

Arriving early was a wise move. There was room for only thirty people at this year's version of Trillin's popular gastronomic walking tour, and magazine insiders were rumored

There was no better place to celebrate the current Golden Age of TV—anyone seriously doubt that one is under way?—than at the Festival's early-morn "Outside the Box" panel, which included the creative forces behind House, M.D. (David Shore), The Wire and Homicide (David Simon), Deadwood and NYPD Blue (David Milch), Weeds (Jenji Kohan), and Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore).

The panel mostly agreed on the following givens: TV stations want to make money, and it's good to tell your story and not the demographically dictated story that the higher-ups want you to tell. Halfway through, in full-on Crazy Uncle mode, Al Swearengen, er, Sipowicz, I mean Milch began