John Battelle quotes
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“Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.”
-- John BattelleSource : John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.210, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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“Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.”
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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.”
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“The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens.”
-- John BattelleSource : "Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple - and would-be censors" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.
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“WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.”
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“Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.”
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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.”
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“We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.”
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“The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.”
-- John BattelleSource : John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.178, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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“Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.”
-- John BattelleSource : John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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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.”
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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.”
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