Online quotes

Online

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Bill Gates
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

"There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that."

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Clive Thompson Journalist
Online

"As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people."

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Shane Smith Entrepreneur
Online

"Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way."

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Peter Gabriel Musician
Online

"When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful."

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Frank Stallone Actor, Musician
Online

"No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online."

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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
Online

"There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time."

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