Quotes About Mashups

#1. Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.

Jaron Lanier

#2. The five types of content curation...54 aggregation distillation elevation mashups chronology

Steven Rosenbaum

#3. I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.

Girl Talk

#4. I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.

Anna Chancellor

#5. Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

Austin Kleon

#6. It (her wedding dress) was the kind of dress that both Scarlett O'Hara and Princess Diana would have deemed 'over the top'.

Jenny Lawson

#7. Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Hank Stuever

#8. One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.

Julian Casablancas

#9. Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

C.S. Lewis

#10. A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

Andrew Bird

#11. Tiny waterfalls trickle down over the rocks where they freeze and the ice glitters in the sunlight reflected off rock and snow. It is said that in the old times, when the early loggers came, the first tree cut down could not fall because the forest was so dense there was no place for it to land.

Kathleen Valentine

#12. ...a lone genius might create a classic work of art or literature, but he could never create an entire industry.

Peter Thiel

#13. Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

Jamais Cascio

#14. Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

Warren G. Bennis

#16. Snow came back, but she didn't come back right.

Rob E. Boley

#17. For what are we left with if there remains no mystery? What hope might we find if we know all of the answers?

R.A. Salvatore

#18. Magic is a naughty beast.

Rob E. Boley

#19. It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

Peter Van Inwagen

#20. I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

Huey Newton

#21. A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Albert Camus