Quotes about the Media
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
Those who engage in smear campaigning as a profession are necessarily incompetent at everything else - hence at that business too.
Facebook "friendship" exists on an even broader spectrum than traditional "friendship." Traditional "friendship" varies in degree from greatest intimacy to casual acquaintance; Facebook "friendship" varies in degree from greatest intimacy to "virtual stranger" or "complete stranger."
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn`t have in your home.
It`s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody`s lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.
Most of us consider the internet to be like the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. It surrounds us. We use it. And we don` t question it. But this is not a natural landscape. Programmers and executives and editors and designers, they make this landscape. They are human beings and they all make choices.
The general public are completely in the dark about very fundamental issues regarding online search and influence. We are talking about the most powerful mind-control machine ever invented in the history of the human race. And people don` t even notice it.
People don`t want to pay eight or nine dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That`s why they watch soap operas.
You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won`t get your second unless you`re good.
I didn`t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
TV networks are like men. Sometimes you have to live them to be appreciated.