John Battelle Quotes

Given the trendlines of digital publishing, where more and more large platforms are profiting from, and controlling, the works of individuals, I can't stress enough: Put your taproot in the independent web. Use the platforms for free distribution (they're using you for free content, after all). And make sure you link back to your own domain.

John Battelle

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StressFreeEnoughYouBackDigital

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

John Ridley

LiveCulturePeopleBadComplaining

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Roger Ebert

MeKindWebFineGladSort

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Rube Goldberg

DietSeriousNowMarchLuckyLast

I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

RuPaul

MeBlessedBeenVeryEscaped

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Mike Shinoda

MusicSoftwareDaysDifferentMake

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Mike Fitzpatrick

CommunicationTogetherInternetGlobe

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

Misty May-Treanor

PowerFoodHoneyFavoriteYogurt

I am ashamed of some of Democrats in my own party.

Donna Brazile

I AmPartyMy OwnAshamedOwnSome

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Brian Eno

IdeasGrowFeelingsPlaceDangerous

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Audrey Hepburn

FatherHomeSadJoyTomorrowWorld

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

William Hague

GovernmentPartyGoConservative

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

Todd McFarlane

PeopleGetWholeScareQuiteAround

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