Quotes About Offline

#1. When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Ethan Zuckerman

#2. Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

John Collison

#4. A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.

Craig Hodges

#5. Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.

Susan Wojcicki

#6. My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

Sam Yagan

#7. Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.

Jay Leno

#8. There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers ... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.

Michelle Phan

#9. A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.

M.J. Rose

#10. Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher ... the world.

Erik Qualman

#11. Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs.

Jay Leno

#12. Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!

Lisa A. Mininni

#13. Because frequency is free in an online permission program, and much more effective offline, the marketer has the luxury of riding the impact curve up without a matching cost curve.

Seth Godin

#14. Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

Yuri Milner

#15. 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

#16. When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#17. Digital analytics is the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from your business and the competition to drive a continual improvement of the online experience that your customers and potential customers have which translates to your desired outcomes (both online and offline).

Anonymous

#18. If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.

Don Mattrick

#19. I think that content posted to Twitter is distributed to more platforms, services, sites, online and offline than any other services out there. Would love to see if someone can prove to me otherwise.

Dick Costolo

#20. Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

Anita Sarkeesian

#21. The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

Cyriac Roeding

#22. You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

Lilly Singh

#23. The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible.

Amy Webb

#24. As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they're just, well, social people.

Clive Thompson

#25. Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

Cameron Russell

#26. New media technologies can open up new opportunities for self-expression. But yoking one's identity too closely to certain characteristics of these technologies - and lacking the time, opportunity, or inclination to explore life and lives offline - may result in an impoverished sense of self.

Gardner Howard

#27. As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail.

Anita Elberse

#28. You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

Jack Ma

#29. In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends.

Tom Anderson

#30. Coupons are in high demand, and consumers get them offline,

Joe Waters

#31. You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

Evgeny Morozov

#32. Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

Peter Guber

#33. If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.

Birgitta Jonsdottir

#34. Putting the brilliant dude's brain offline was a serious ego trip.

Annabeth Albert

#35. If your business does not perform offline, it won't perform online.

Benoit Gaillard

#36. Programmers Never Die,
They Just Go Offline

Myself

#37. The idea of reputation, influence, and influencers in the offline world is as old as the hills. It's not new on the web either, but semantic search is creating a portable sense of identity, reputation, and influence that in the days before it simply did not exist. And this is changing everything

David Amerland

#38. My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.

Anthony Bourdain

#39. The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

Patrick Collison

#40. I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#41. I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, tweets, and messages about the video.

Bethany Mota

#42. You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.

Pico Iyer