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John Battelle Quotes

You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.

John Battelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: November 4, 1965

Topics

Life Service Yourself Better Data

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Robert Gottlieb

Sea Men Building You Museum Way

I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.

Amy Tan

Experience Day Ideas Thoughts Deep

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

Toni Collette

Mother Out Mothers Like Even Set

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

Rose George

Work Day Christmas Kingdom Port

Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

Ron Fournier

Technology Questions Underestimate

It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters.

Mary Beard

People End Nice Matters In The End

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Boris Pasternak

Life Work Time Best Day Energy

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Bob Edwards

Everything Radio Listener

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Process New Development Always Japan

I don't really have a mantra when it comes to relationships. For me, listening is key. Clarity is so important.

Scott Foley

Me Listening Key Clarity Important

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Thornton Wilder

Happiness God Best Gift Alive Know

There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

Marlon James

Never Single Robbery Almost Suburban