most memorable quotes from sxsw 2011
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SXSWINTERACTIVE 2011
MOST MEMORABLE
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“The reason we're at SXSW, and the reason everyone else is here, is that it's the most concentrated
influx of exciting, fun, early adopter, tech people who are willing to try out anything at
least once.”
Seth Priebatsch
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“The environment here (SXSW) is great because it is
an environment that is dominated by nobody. The result is that you really get a lot cooking. I like that.”
Barry Diller
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“To succeed you need passion and a relentless
will to chase the big idea, while having fun.”
Tim O’Reilly
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“Ronald Reagan is the ‘father of FourSquare’ because when
the Navy put up the GPS system, he chose to keep it
open to the public.”
Tim O’Reilly
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“I just want to live longer than Ray Kurzweil. I figure if
he’s right, I’ll live forever, and if he’s wrong, it will be
funny.”
Tim O’Reilly
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“When the Wall Street Journal and the Washington post start referring to people who don't
use Facebook as 'Facebook refusionists,' that's when we start to realize how much we can't be
disconnected from these networks.”
Genevieve Bell
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“It was Sumner Redstone who created the ‘content is king’ thing because he had content and he wanted to
be a king.” Barry Diller
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“We need an unambiguous rule that no one will step
between the publisher and the consumer.”
Barry Diller
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“Don't invest in chasing crowds. Invest in ideas.”
Barry Diller
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“One of the reasons why I believe in God is that there is no other explanation for Apple's continuous survival than the existence of God.”
Guy Kawasaki
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“The ultimate response to ‘Thank You’ is ‘I know you would do the same for me’. Let people know that they
owe you.” Guy Kawasaki
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“You have to trust others before they trust you.”
Guy Kawasaki
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“You want the likability of Virgin, trustworthiness of Zappos and a product of
Apple.” Guy Kawasaki
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“The reason people love their parents is because they loved
you first. Brands should consider the metaphor and
give to their customers before asking things from them.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
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“Social media isn’t a fad because it is inherently
human. Lots of companies are going to fail because
they want to monetize first and offer value second.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
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“If content is king, context is God.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
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“Content calendars are like going to a cocktail party
with a script.” Gary Vaynerchuk
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“The mobile phone really acts as a cursor that
connects the physical and digital worlds together.”
Marissa Meyer
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"Your campaign is not a
booty call, it’s a long term relationship.”
Felicia Day
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"I believe strongly in being
able to keep the Internet an open platform. The Internet is a beautiful place. We're living in the sundance of our time”
Felicia Day
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“It's not how big your fan base is that counts, it is how resonant you are with your
fan base.” Felicia Day
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“Mainstream is nothing anymore. Mainstream is
whatever you are interested in.”
Felicia Day
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“It’s possible that in the future we might have to
legislate what percent of a person’s body has to be organic to be a sentient
being.”Shane Kempton
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“Linux users are the flagellant monks among
us.”Shane Kempton
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“Apple has always tried to create an emotional response. They’ve
designed the software to make you feel a certain way. They use terms like ‘magical’ and ‘beautiful.’ The
way Apple goes about controlling its ecosystem feels very much like the way the church controlled content.”
Shane Kempton
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“An Open Internet: The Last, Best Hope for
Independent Producers.” Al Franken
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“Entrepreneurs come from nowhere and change lives
everywhere.” Al Franken
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“It’s one Internet, folks. The news system now incorporates the
people formerly known as the audience. Twitter and Facebook
are hugely powerful as distributors of news.”
Jay Rosen
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“Bloggers are closer to Tom Paine than Bob Woodward is.”
Jay Rosen
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“When you can take an idea and put it out there and have people connect with it, respond to it or
interact with it, and make it better, I think that's sort of the
magic of the collective conscience of what we call the internets.”
Ashton Kutcher
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“Engagement is really what makes people lifelong
donors.” Leo Ramirez
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“Giving doesn't just feel good, it is a really good
business strategy.” Blake Mycoskie
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“When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract and maintain
the most amazing employees in the world.”
Blake Mycoskie
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“When you incorporate giving into your business in
an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your
best marketers.”Blake Mycoskie
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“The next 12 months for TV interfaces: way more personalization. Although the barriers are who shares who’s
data with who. We’ll see it at the app and platform level. Across multiple devices. But (the questions remains) can TV be made more relative to the household based on all of the data?”
David Maher Roberts
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“What makes the world work, what makes things
better, is passionate virtuosity.”
Bruce Sterling
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“Facebook and Wikileakshave more political clout
than State Department and Pentagon combined.”
Bruce Sterling
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“A futurist is criticizing what is not yet invented.”
Bruce Sterling
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“People under 25 are the victims of a decaying status
quo. It's a gerontocracy.” Bruce Sterling
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“Be realistic. Demand impossible.”
Bruce Sterling
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THANK YOU!
Marta MajewskaPorter Novelli
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