Reddit Quotes

• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  Randall Munroe

  Beach, Writing, Twenties

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• Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Hate, People, Knows

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• Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

  Christian Rudder

  Fighting, Data, Age

  Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.16, Crown

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• If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  School, Diversity, Church

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• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  Yishan Wong

  Real, Stories, Real Story

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• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  Yishan Wong

  Media, Personality, Social

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• I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

  Yishan Wong

  Powerful, Unique, Thinking

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• If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Reading, Pages, Ifs

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Community, Foundation, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Unique, Thinking, Eight

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Years, People, Community

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Community, Shapes, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Real, Names, Identity

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• I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

  Misha Collins

  Names, Ideas, People

  "I am Misha Collins, a Futuristic Version of AMA!". www.reddit.com. July 14, 2014.

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• Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

  John Scalzi

  Squares, Space, Internet

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

  Plautus

  Spring, Men, Oats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 344-45, Trinummus, IV. 4. 128, 1922.

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• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  Yishan Wong

  Mean, Community, News

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• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  Yishan Wong

  Team, Thinking, Discovery

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• All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.

  Yishan Wong

  Powerful, Thinking, Community

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• With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

  Yishan Wong

  Thinking, Yes You Can, People

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• If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

  Chris Hardwick

  Real, People, Band

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• The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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• Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

  Maureen Dowd

  Party, Talking, Cocktail Parties

  "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.

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