"In a world lit by data, street corners……" — John Battelle
"In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google."
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34 Quotes by John Battelle
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Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.
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Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure…
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Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to…
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The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
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We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles…
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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
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Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the…
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Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet…
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I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write…
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When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen.…
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Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode,…
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You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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