Social-media Quotes

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation...

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create mis...

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our ...

Distracted from distraction by distraction

let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons...

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow ...

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Sc...

Emergency? Knighthawk sent. I’m just bored.I blinked, holding my phone and rereading that text.Bored...

Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And...

You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.

So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not...

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the...

If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - th...

I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymit...

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The...

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the sa...

It’s even more awkward when we’re face to face with people. It used to be exciting to make plans wit...

I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that be...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. T...

Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is p...

Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is p...

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image ...

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? Bu...

Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rat...