SXSW 2011 Quotes

Conferences are not supposed to end after the doors close.

You can’t look at the Internet as purely a promotional tool. People are just so tired of being promoted at. You need to share stuff as much as you want to take from the Internet. You have to feed the machine.

With the music industry there seems to be a dinosaur mentality. They’re slow to move, slow to adopt.

Young people: Move to Austin. Take over the town. Make friends with the Army and the cops. You are the Army and the cops. Don’t listen to any grey haired professors explaining why change is possible…be realistic, demand the impossible. Days of rage, baby. Up against the wall!

Wikileaks and Facebook - which weren’t even around five years ago - have more political clout than the state department and the US military combined. It’s nothing to clap about. It’s actually a calamity.

Italy is the one country in the world where cyberpunk is a native practice.

If Texans understood, they’d be on the street for wind power right now. You could go out there and make your relatives in West Texas rich…Where is the popular pressure for this? Why are social networks not abuzz with this?

If anybody’s board of directors belongs in prison, it’s these guys (at Exxon Mobil).

I’m not gonna cry because this event has grown too big to have my epic house parties anymore.

Microformats are the Urban Dictionary of HTML.

Women of SXSW, do not embrace a coward!

Another world is inevitable. The future is unwritten. Good luck to you.

People under 25 are the victims of a decaying status quo. It's a gerontocracy.

American people should be in the streets... Madison style.

I want to formally declare my passionate solidarity with the millennials. Boomers shut the hell up!

If Bill Hicks was looking down on Texas right now he would not be a happy man. He'd be scolding you worse than me.

She explained that those 3 boys were her sons, and for the past year her sons had been sharing a single pair of shoes. Her oldest son had been walking to school, coming home, giving his shoes to his brother, and he had to wait until Thursday to go to school again. Now all of her sons could go to school every day and they got to walk there together.

If content is king, context is God.

Entrepreneurs come from nowhere and change lives everywhere.

You're not just tech innovators, you're job creators.