Quotes tagged ‘Scale’

“Jasmine: You're cute. Crosby: It's the motorcycle. Yeah, I'm just a six but with the motorcycle I'm an eight.”

— Jason Katims, Tyler Bensinger, Crosby Braverman, Dax Shepard, imdb.com

“Hypothetically, scale of one to ten, how difficult would it be for someone to disappear?”

— Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Mark Williams, Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, imdb.com

“In Spotify’s thinking, the cost of production is so low that artists don’t need record labels, whose marketing and distribution support isn’t as important in today’s decentralized model as it used to be.”

— Lucas Shaw, bloomberg.com

“Scale is measured through intimacy at scale. We don’t want to grow without engagement. For us, we’re already the biggest in the newsletter game. If we get to 10 million [subscribers] or more, those metrics don’t matter. If you get to 15 million, but people don’t care, then it doesn’t mean anything.…”

— Carly Zakin, digiday.com

“I think publishers are much more savvy now in general. We have seen the trend move toward engagement metrics and slightly smaller, but more targeted and engaged audiences. We are significantly smaller in owned and operated reach than are many of our competitors, but advertisers have responded very f…”

— Michael Wertheim, digiday.com

“Being a solo publisher without a whole lot of scale is tough and is going to get tougher. Scale always ends up mattering. We’re entering a period of consolidation, and if you’re a small, medium-sized publisher, it’s tough out there. You’re always a nice-to-have, never a must-buy.”

— Ben Lerer, digiday.com

“Being a rocket scientist had its advantages. Within 15 minutes, Buck had a written a program that's a standard today for any online credit card transaction.”

— George Gallo, Andy Weiss, Jack Harris, Luke Wilson, amazon.com

“A hot-standby is a PostgreSQL replica that allows you to run read-only SQL queries, contrary to a regular standby that does not allow any SQL queries to be executed.”

— Yorick Peterse, about.gitlab.com

“For an understanding of just how much space HLLs really save, consider the r/pics post included at the top of this blog post. It received over 1 million unique users. If we had to store 1 million unique user IDs, and each user ID is an 8-byte long, then we would require 8 megabytes of memory just to…”

— Krishnan Chandra, redditblog.com

“Step off the scale (and stay off). Your weight is not your worth. It’s not a measure of your health, fitness or attractiveness. For all intents and purposes, it’s more accurately a measure of our mood or anxiety levels than anything else!”

— Alexis Wolfer, thebeautybean.com

“If you’re writing React, you have access to a more powerful styling construct than CSS class names. You have components.”

— michael chan, medium.com

“I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many beautiful opportunities in my life such as scheduling family photos, having fun at the beach, or giving myself 100% in intimacy…”

— Dan Pearce, amazon.com

“A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.”

— Marty Rubin, amazon.com

“I'll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I'm ok with that.”

— Sugar Jamison, amazon.com

“DeepText is already being tested on some Facebook experiences. In the case of Messenger, for example, it is beginning to give us a better understanding of when someone might want to go somewhere. DeepText is used for intent detection and entity extraction to help realize that a person is not looking…”

— Ahmad Abdulkader, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Joy Zhang, code.facebook.com

“But real people don't engage with the world via big ideas. We engage through activities that are scaled to real life. Big ideas—at least the kind we recognize as big ideas—are for big entities: corporations, countries, continents. If we're going to begin operating on a human scale at least some of t…”

— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com