John Battelle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.
-- John Battelle

#Our World #Marketing #World
Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
-- John Battelle

#Fun #Media #Who Cares
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.
-- John Battelle

#Children #Saint #Bills
The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens.
-- John Battelle

#Garden #Shrinking #Internet
WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.
-- John Battelle

#Advice #Easy #Site
Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
-- John Battelle
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.
-- John Battelle

#Notebook #Smart #Phones
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.
-- John Battelle

#Play #Roles #Corporations
The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
-- John Battelle

#Google #Failing
Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.
-- John Battelle

#Marketing #Way #Inexpensive
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.
-- John Battelle

#Dream #Reality #Google
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.
-- John Battelle

#Years #Year End #Google

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