Technology Quotes

We make the books the way we make the books because it's fun that way. We want to make an object people will hold on to and honour and cherish. Let's think about it as a book: What does it need to do, what can it do?

By having the option to explore a book beyond the original text — by dint of videos, living links, and so on — it becomes a living, breathing, updating organism, just like the rest of our technology.

Books outsell every other product on the internet.

The timeframe for the launch of books has gone from silly to unrealistic. Today, even though all other media has accelerated rapidly, books still take a year or more [to be published]. You need to consider what the shelf life of your idea is.

Anyone who is computer savvy can become a publisher these days. I know, because I’ve just become one. I’m now Ray Connolly, writer, editor-in-chief and head of marketing.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The future is being written and we are part of it.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

For companies, resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. Your competitors are already there. Your customers have been there for a long time. If your business isn't putting itself out there, it ought to be.

This is a once in a generation holy shit idea!

If your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall... there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

The internet's not written in pencil Mark. It's written in ink.

The web is all about specificity.