Jonathan Zittrain Quotes

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

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• I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Watch
  • Swim

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Growth
  • Decisions
  • Recovery

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Why
  • Want
  • Stay

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Want
  • Fear

• I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

  

  Flume
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Push

• Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

  

  Dara Horn
  • Sibling

• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Band

• He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • People

• Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Control