Category: Quotes

“Headlines now are a strange cross between imperative and inviting. The tone is soothing, seductive and at least a little bit demanding, like every character ever played by Linda Fiorentino.”

— Choire Sicha

“I’ve realized—Twitter is outsourced schizophrenia. I have a couple hundred voices I have consensually agreed to allow residence inside my brain.”

— Adam Brault

“It’s clear that my Twitter account is a much better place for this sort of sharing, while my own site is a place for content created by me.”

— Chris Bowler

“Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?”

— Paul Shawcross

“I worry that Swartz’s prosecution is a sign that America is gradually losing the sense of humor that has made it the home of the world’s innovators and misfits.”

— Tim Lee

“That person is gone today, driven to the edge by what a decent society would only call bullying. I get wrong. But I also get proportionality. And if you don’t get both, you don’t deserve to have the power of the United States government behind you.”

— Lawrence Lessig

“Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets. “

— Dan Pallotta

“If your signature is longer than your actual email content, then you’ve failed at the Internet and you must leave. Now.”

— Don Melton

“Apple is a leader in building devices that people use.”

– Chuck Skoda

“But Google’s increasingly desperate push to cram Google+ down everyone’s throats hasn’t made Google+ any more relevant.”

– Marco Arment

“Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“But when you write for TrollWriteSMASH, edited by the artist formerly known as Fake Steve Jobs and currently known as mud, just one survey that supports your bitter, anti-Apple hypothesis will do.”

— The Macalope

“We need a media that races to be right.”

— Dave Pell

“Intentions are dandy, but real men get to work.”

— Shawn Blanc

“We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users.”

— Anil Dash

“When I ‘declined’ an interview, what actually happened was you emailed my MOTHER and she had no idea what Buzzfeed was, so she said no.”

— The Oatmeal

“Again, there will be winners in this space. And the only thing I’m certain of is that those winners won’t look or act anything like The Daily.”

— MG Siegler

“It’s a lot of fun to play loosey goosey with numbers isn’t it Amazon?”

— Jim Dalrymple

“I started to become overly interested in how others operated and other benchmarks and achievements.
What I should always have been concerned with was my own context and what my company needed.”

— Nicholas Haralambous

“He said the Navajo saw mistakes as moments in time. And since you can’t change time, why try to change a mistake that already happened?”

— Jamie Ross via Jason Fried