John Battelle Quotes

• The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

  John Battelle

  Google, Failing

  John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.178, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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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 find leads.

  John Battelle

  Marketing, Way, Inexpensive

  John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

  John Battelle

  Our World, Marketing, World

  John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.210, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

  John Battelle

  Fun, Media, Who Cares

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• Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

  John Battelle

  Children, Saint, Bills

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• The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

  John Battelle

  Garden, Shrinking, Internet

  "Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple - and would-be censors" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.

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• WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.

  John Battelle

  Advice, Easy, Site

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• Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

  John Battelle

  Industry

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• The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

  John Battelle

  Notebook, Smart, Phones

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• We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

  John Battelle

  Play, Feudal System, Roles

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• Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

  John Battelle

  Dream, Reality, Google

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• It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

  John Battelle

  Years, Year End, Google

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