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Tom Silverman

"Whenever you have consolidation, you do that for more economies of scale and leverage in making deals. But when you start losing control, like with the web, you lose some of the benefits. You can't hold films or records back anymore because the internet has made everything available as soon as it's available. Record labels have to learn to make money, and that's moved from a control model to a collaborative world. When I talk about hobbyists, those are consumers wanting to be creators. But maybe one or two of them could become the next superstar, but I can't wait for that."

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Tom Silverman

#Waiting Quotes #World Quotes #Losing Quotes

“Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom!”
“We wannaâ€™ be free! We wannaâ€™ be free to do what we wannaâ€™ do. We wannaâ€™ be free to ride. We wannaâ€™ be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! And we wannaâ€™ get loaded. And we wannaâ€™ have a good time. And thatâ€™s what we are gonnaâ€™ do. We are gonnaâ€™ have a good time â€¦ We are gonnaâ€™ have a party.”
“The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”
“Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.”
“The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.”
“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.”
“My favorite single line from the QurÂ’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another Â– because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.”

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