Platform Building Quotes

#1. 'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.

Phillip Phillips

#2. 'Superbetter' looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren't any 3-d spaces to explore. You don't have this avatar that you're building up. It's more about thinking like a gamer.

Jane McGonigal

#3. Looking for a supernova, therefore, was a little like standing on the observation platform of the Empire State Building with a telescope and searching windows around Manhattan in the hope of finding, let us say, someone lighting a twenty-first birthday cake.

Bill Bryson

#4. To me, there is no such thing as a trash duck. There are ducks that are a lot better to eat than other ducks. But a duck is just that.

Phil Robertson

#5. I really wanted to talk to her.
I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

Peter Watts

#6. I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

Matt Mickiewicz

#7. Think of platform building as building a fire. Each platform-building activity adds another twig or log to the fire.

Mark Coker

#8. Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Christine Caine

#9. Don't beg for platforms, build your platform.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#10. My greatest passion is my personal life.

Blake Lively

#11. I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

Safak Pavey

#12. Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

Kathryn Minshew

#13. Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Aaron Levie

#14. Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?

Yasmina Khadra

#15. I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

Jaime Murray

#16. An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

Tori Amos

#17. My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

Betsy Brandt

#18. There is a little bit of me in every part I do ... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

Zach Gilford

#19. We're building a unique global platform ... In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

Jeff Bezos

#20. In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

Miguel De Icaza

#21. Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

Ken Blackwell