Bob Garfield quotes
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“What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.”
-- Bob GarfieldSource : Bob Garfield (2009). “The Chaos Scenario”
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“Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.”
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“Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.”
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“I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.”
-- Bob GarfieldSource : Source: www.slate.com
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“Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.”
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“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
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“If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.”
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“What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.”
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“Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.”
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