John Battelle Quotes

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.

John Battelle

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• I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Running

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I've been things and seen places.

  

  Mae West
  • Things
  • Places
  • Seen

• There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Fear is something I try not to absorb.

  

  Mark E. Smith
  • Fear

• No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • World
  • Dying

• I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• 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.

  

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