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Henry Jenkins

"When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media."

Source : Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.114, NYU Press

Henry Jenkins

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“It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.”
“With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.”
“I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road you can barely see from the well-traveled road. So, when I'm writing, I'm not thinking about audience at all. Instead, I'm trying to see behind those shrubs, down that hidden path. We're the weirdos of the world and there are so many weirdos.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.”

Source : Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“MapReduce has become the assembly language for big data processing, and SnapReduce employs sophisticated techniques to compile SnapLogic data integration pipelines into this new big data target language. Applying everything we know about the two worlds of integration and Hadoop, we built our technology to directly fit MapReduce, making the process of connectivity and large scale data integration seamless and simple.”
“Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.”
“Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.”
“When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.”

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