Top 28 Bilton Quotes
#1. The desire that I may have no desirebis itself a desire.
R.N. Prasher
#2. What do you think your valuation is right now? Mark asked as they both sat uncomfortably across from and below him, peering up at a boy who could, hypothetically speaking, quite happily buy them or murder them, all with the same exact expression on his face.
Nick Bilton
#3. When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.
Terry Brooks
#4. Fred wasn't convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like products had all failed.
Nick Bilton
#5. When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.
John McLaughlin
#6. In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
Nick Bilton
#7. The press pass and the a title of "journalist" had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.
Nick Bilton
#8. So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)
Nick Bilton
#10. There's an all too human tendency to believe that what we know and experience now is the way it will and always should be.
Nick Bilton
#11. Or is it that alongside this track runs other lines - repetitions, variations, contradictions - echoes of all those lives we failed to live and the things we failed to do?
Alan Bilton
#12. Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.
Nick Bilton
#13. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl.
Maggie Nelson
#14. When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it tried to launch.
Nick Bilton
#16. If your posture is that of one washing dirty feet, you are prevented from looking down on others and, instead, look up to them.
Jonah Books
#17. People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
Nick Bilton
#18. I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.
Serena Williams
#19. All forms of technology, with the exception of paper, are strictly forbidden inside any high-level Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information, or TS/SCI area,
Nick Bilton
#20. It wasn't the money that made him turn down Facebook's proposal. It was that Twitter and Facebook were two completely different companies, with different goals and, as Ev saw it, vastly different morals. Twitter's
Nick Bilton
#21. The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor.
Paul Bilton
#22. Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind" - Commander Hadfield
Nick Bilton
#23. The idea was that while one person wrote code, the other programmer would massage his or her shoulders; then they would switch.
Nick Bilton
#24. The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction.
Nick Bilton
#25. A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter." This is it, he thought. "Agitation or excitement; flutter." A verb. Twitter.
Nick Bilton
#26. When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are.
Nick Bilton
#27. It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.
Nick Bilton
#28. The face in the bed seemed to deepen its expression of wild, but motionless distraction. Mrs Bolton looked at it and was worried. She knew what she was up against: male hysteria. She had not nursed soldiers without learning something about that very unpleasant disease. She
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