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Robert Levine Quotes

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“Me, I can't help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It's a sickness. Truly.”
— John Silver, Black Sails, Season 1: I.
Tagged: sickness, Opportunity, Opportunistic, Yearning
“All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.”
— Captain Flint, Black Sails, Season 3: XXVIII.
Tagged: History, Stories, monsters, Distorted, Narrative, wise
“Be honest. Are you as surprised as I am that I'm the only one here behaving myself?”
— Captain Charles Vane, Black Sails, Season 1: III.
Tagged: behave, joke, Cheeky, Honesty, surprise
“In Silicon Valley, the information that wants to be free is almost always the information that belongs to someone else.”
— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Tagged: Free Information, Silicon Valley
“ I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason, could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.”
— Captain Flint, Black Sails, Season 2: XVIII.
Tagged: Regret, Reconciliation, monster, enemies, Hate
“You steal cargo at the end of a sword. We sell that cargo to markets that will never have you. When you are strong, you are a necessary evil. When you are not strong, you are likely soon to be dead. But what you are not ever is a sound investment.”
— Mr. Scott, Black Sails, Season 1: I.
Tagged: steal, Strong, Evil, dead, Investment, Pirate
“This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?”
— Captain Flint, Black Sails, Season 3: XXVIII.
Tagged: wise, dark, Shadows, Light, Lies, Turth, Discovery, Possibility, Freedom, Choice
“To Google, Auletta's book is just a series of ones and zeros—and not very many of them, compared with a movie. To Auletta, those ones and zeros were exceptionally expensive to create—at least in terms of time—since the technology that has revolutionized the cost of distributing text hasn't dramatically changed the nature of writing it. Reporters can access online databases and interview sources by Skype, but they still have to read documents and ask the right questions. In cases like this, 'information wants to be expensive.'”
— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Tagged: Data, Information Economics
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