Chad Hurley Quotes

I love video.

Everyone wants to be recognized.

The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.

• Up
• Experience

I basically watch videos online all day long.

• Long

I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

• Great
• Movie

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

• Star

Content begets content.

You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.

Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.

• Time
• World

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

• Time
• Good
• Design

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

• Long
• Trying
• Remember

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

• Wall

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

• Up
• Work
• Kids

The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.

• Purpose

I think you will see a point where the traditional model of advertising on TV or advertising online will go, and advertisers will cover one programme, no matter what platform it's being broadcast on. You'll see the same ads whether you are watching it on your TV, your computer or your phone.

• Model

There's not really any safe places on the Internet.

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

• Model

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.

No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

• Champion

I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.

• Different
• Thinking
• Style

I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

• Coffee

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

• People