Most Memorable Quotes from SXSW 2011

SXSWINTERACTIVE 2011

MOST MEMORABLE

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“The reason we're at SXSW, and the reason everyone else is here, is that it's the most concentrated

influx of exciting, fun, early adopter, tech people who are willing to try out anything at

least once.”

Seth Priebatsch

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“The environment here (SXSW) is great because it is

an environment that is dominated by nobody. The result is that you really get a lot cooking. I like that.”

Barry Diller

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“To succeed you need passion and a relentless

will to chase the big idea, while having fun.”

Tim O’Reilly

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“Ronald Reagan is the ‘father of FourSquare’ because when

the Navy put up the GPS system, he chose to keep it

open to the public.”

Tim O’Reilly

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“I just want to live longer than Ray Kurzweil. I figure if

he’s right, I’ll live forever, and if he’s wrong, it will be

funny.”

Tim O’Reilly

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“When the Wall Street Journal and the Washington post start referring to people who don't

use Facebook as 'Facebook refusionists,' that's when we start to realize how much we can't be

disconnected from these networks.”

Genevieve Bell

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“It was Sumner Redstone who created the ‘content is king’ thing because he had content and he wanted to

be a king.” Barry Diller

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“We need an unambiguous rule that no one will step

between the publisher and the consumer.”

Barry Diller

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“Don't invest in chasing crowds. Invest in ideas.”

Barry Diller

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“One of the reasons why I believe in God is that there is no other explanation for Apple's continuous survival than the existence of God.”

Guy Kawasaki

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“The ultimate response to ‘Thank You’ is ‘I know you would do the same for me’. Let people know that they

owe you.” Guy Kawasaki

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“You have to trust others before they trust you.”

Guy Kawasaki

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“You want the likability of Virgin, trustworthiness of Zappos and a product of

Apple.” Guy Kawasaki

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“The reason people love their parents is because they loved

you first. Brands should consider the metaphor and

give to their customers before asking things from them.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

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“Social media isn’t a fad because it is inherently

human. Lots of companies are going to fail because

they want to monetize first and offer value second.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

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“If content is king, context is God.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

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“Content calendars are like going to a cocktail party

with a script.” Gary Vaynerchuk

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“The mobile phone really acts as a cursor that

connects the physical and digital worlds together.”

Marissa Meyer

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"Your campaign is not a

booty call, it’s a long term relationship.”

Felicia Day

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"I believe strongly in being

able to keep the Internet an open platform. The Internet is a beautiful place. We're living in the sundance of our time”

Felicia Day

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“It's not how big your fan base is that counts, it is how resonant you are with your

fan base.” Felicia Day

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“Mainstream is nothing anymore. Mainstream is

whatever you are interested in.”

Felicia Day

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“It’s possible that in the future we might have to

legislate what percent of a person’s body has to be organic to be a sentient

being.”Shane Kempton

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“Linux users are the flagellant monks among

us.”Shane Kempton

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“Apple has always tried to create an emotional response. They’ve

designed the software to make you feel a certain way. They use terms like ‘magical’ and ‘beautiful.’ The

way Apple goes about controlling its ecosystem feels very much like the way the church controlled content.”

Shane Kempton

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“An Open Internet: The Last, Best Hope for

Independent Producers.” Al Franken

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“Entrepreneurs come from nowhere and change lives

everywhere.” Al Franken

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“It’s one Internet, folks. The news system now incorporates the

people formerly known as the audience. Twitter and Facebook

are hugely powerful as distributors of news.”

Jay Rosen

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“Bloggers are closer to Tom Paine than Bob Woodward is.”

Jay Rosen

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“When you can take an idea and put it out there and have people connect with it, respond to it or

interact with it, and make it better, I think that's sort of the

magic of the collective conscience of what we call the internets.”

Ashton Kutcher

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“Engagement is really what makes people lifelong

donors.” Leo Ramirez

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“Giving doesn't just feel good, it is a really good

business strategy.” Blake Mycoskie

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“When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract and maintain

the most amazing employees in the world.”

Blake Mycoskie

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“When you incorporate giving into your business in

an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your

best marketers.”Blake Mycoskie

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“The next 12 months for TV interfaces: way more personalization. Although the barriers are who shares who’s

data with who. We’ll see it at the app and platform level. Across multiple devices. But (the questions remains) can TV be made more relative to the household based on all of the data?”

David Maher Roberts

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“What makes the world work, what makes things

better, is passionate virtuosity.”

Bruce Sterling

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“Facebook and Wikileakshave more political clout

than State Department and Pentagon combined.”

Bruce Sterling

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“A futurist is criticizing what is not yet invented.”

Bruce Sterling

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“People under 25 are the victims of a decaying status

quo. It's a gerontocracy.” Bruce Sterling

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“Be realistic. Demand impossible.”

Bruce Sterling

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