John Battelle quotes

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail. (John Battelle)
Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media. View quote
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Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so. View quote
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WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it. View quote
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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up. View quote
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Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality. View quote
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It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to. View quote
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Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example. View quote
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The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. View quote
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I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine. View quote
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As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation. (John Battelle)
You pulled out of MacWorld and began hosting your own strictly scripted events. ... Despite the gorgeous products and services you've created, we worry that you're headed down a road that may lead to your own demise. View quote
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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home. View quote
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The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right. View quote
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