Jonathan Potter famous quotes

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
-- Jonathan Potter

#Believe #Water #Competition

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.
-- Jonathan Potter

#Technology #Use #Want

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
-- Jonathan Potter

#Thinking #People #Mad

This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with free: high value content that's virus- free and gives people the chance to be first in line to buy expensive concert tickets. This is like loyalty clubs at the supermarkets.
-- Jonathan Potter

#Loyalty #People #Giving

This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.
-- Jonathan Potter

#Rights #Battle #Sync

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.