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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“The content is not the message, the contact is. The ping itself. It's the synaptic transmission of an organism trying to wake itself up.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed
Tagged: Connectionism, Medium = Message
“In preliterate civilizations, people attempted to live their lives and appease their gods with no real sense of the rules. They just did what they could, sacrificing animals and even children along the way to appease the gods they didn't understand. The invention of text gave them a set of rules to follow—or not. Now, everyone was a cheater to some extent, at least in that they had the choice of whether to go by the law, or to evade it. With the printing press came writing. The Bible was no longer set in stone, but something to be changed––or at least reinterpreted. Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses, the first great 'mod' of Catholicism, and later, nations rewrote their histories by launching their revolutions. Finally, the invention of digital technology gives us the ability to program: to create self-sustaining information systems, or virtual life. These are technologies that carry on long after we've created them, making future decisions without us.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed
Tagged: Democratization, History Of Communication, Opening of Culture
“The most valuable contribution to our economy comes from connectivity, not content.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Tagged: Connection, Connectionism, Medium = Message
“Inspiring more creativity is more important than whether you or I like the creativity we've inspired.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Tagged: Creativity, Your Own Terms, More Creativity, Thought Catalog, Pushing Creativity
“For most of the Middle Ages in Europe, the elite spoke and wrote in Latin. The masses did not. They spoke local, or vernacular, languages— what we now call French, German, and English. What was important to the elites was thus inaccessible to the masses. The most 'important' texts were understood by only a few.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Tagged: Democratization, Opening of Culture, Opening of Language
“The biggest challenge is to stay small while growing much bigger, which is to say that, as organizations grow large, sometimes they forget important stuff.”
— Craig Newmark, Get Back in the Box
Tagged: Business, Craigslist, Growth, Scale
“The emergence of alternative distribution systems could have motivated innovation as easily as it induced paralysis; the industry could have used it as an opportunity to develop better, higher resolution recordings that can't easily be shared, or to build more accessible downloading interfaces, as Apple did with its groundbreaking iTunes/iPod online music store combination.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box
Tagged: Change, Disruption
“One of the things that's happening on mobile is that there's an increased focus for apps to do one thing really well. So on desktop, a lot of the things that might have fit well into a single Facebook website, now in order to best serve people, you need to build multiple standalone different apps. So we are seeing that with Facebook and Messenger, and the work that we did to kind of split out Messenger from the Facebook app to give a dedicated experience around that, that we think is a better experience. And we're going to do more of that in the future, as well with the Facebook Creative Labs products that we are releasing.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Shareholder.com
Tagged: Facebook, Mobile
“The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned.”
— Grendel, Grendel
Tagged: Nature's Apathy, Night
“ Maybe once or twice a year I'll just take a few days off and wander around and ask myself, if I were starting from scratch today, and I weren't running Facebook, what would I build? I look at this mobile trend in light of the law of sharing, our equivalent of Moore's law, which states that the average amount of information that a person shares doubles every year or so. Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, wired.com
Tagged: Facebook, Mobile, Moore's law, Work Strategies