Quotes About Platforms

#1. The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#2. Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

Gene Spafford

#3. That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

Felicia Day

#4. I'm always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I'll be there.

Melanie Brown

#5. What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.

Muhammad Yunus

#6. People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Willie Geist

#7. Platforms are established because of the way the Lord used someone.

Johnny Hunt

#8. I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film.

Aurora Guerrero

#9. What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

Steven Johnson

#10. Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

Ai Weiwei

#11. Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.

Marissa Mayer

#12. Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.

Audrey Greathouse

#13. The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do ... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#14. 'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available in a variety of platforms and written by an editorial staff known for its distinctive and discerning style and wit.

Jared Kushner

#15. Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

Michelle Phan

#16. Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.

Tina Brown

#17. To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Harry S. Truman

#18. I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.

Anna Howard Shaw

#19. Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

Marco Arment

#20. His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.

Wallace Stegner

#21. Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Roger Ailes

#22. It's the beauty of WWE. We use all our platforms to cross-promote each other and vice versa.

Triple H

#23. Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Antonio Machado

#25. I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

Sky Ferreira

#26. I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

Natalie Massenet

#27. I saw the misadjusted dials and the whirling gauges and the bubbling green fluid and the electricity arcing around, and a story laid out for me, my sorry self alchemically transmuted into power and robots and fortresses and orbital platforms and costumes and alien kings.

Austin Grossman

#28. As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

Paulo Coelho

#29. The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.

Ryan Holmes

#30. My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#31. Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

Hamadoun Toure

#32. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

Ze Frank

#33. Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

Dean Stockwell

#34. The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

Samuel Logan Brengle

#35. By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

Osman Rashid

#36. If you substituted networks for socialism, you got the Internet. Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence.

Jonathan Franzen

#37. You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#38. If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

Markus Persson

#39. Most CMSes are pretty bad even at doing page layout, typically providing drag-and-drop tools that don't cut the mustard. And even then, you end up needing to have someone who understands HTML and CSS to fine-tune the CMS templates. They tend to be terrible platforms on which to build custom code.

Sam Newman

#40. Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

Vivienne Westwood

#41. The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

Ashton Kutcher

#42. For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

Simon Mainwaring

#43. Today we are not put up on the platforms and sold at the courthouse square. But we are forced to sell our strength, our time, our souls during almost every hour that we live. We have been freed from one kind of slavery only to be delivered into another. Is this freedom?

Carson McCullers

#44. I'm lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on - I do stand-up comedy, and I have 'SNL.' That's where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I'm in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it's in the hands of the reader.

Michael Che

#45. The more he rode the trolleys and trains of New York, the more they seemed to form a giant, malevolent bellows, inhaling defenseless passengers from platforms and street corners and blowing them out again elsewhere.

Helene Wecker

#46. I'd been knocked down. Again and again. I just kept getting up. And I was still standing, in platforms, with great hair.

Kristen Ashley

#47. Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

Bocafloja

#48. We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

Aaron Levie

#49. Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

Mike Wilson

#50. The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

Anne Sweeney

#51. The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

Jim Breyer

#52. I don't think I would be here in an interview if YouTube wasn't in existence, if social media hadn't been developed, or if these platforms for artists to promote and develop their own careers hadn't become available.

Ryan Lewis

#53. In October 2014, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and raised $25 billion, marking it as the largest IPO in history. Alibaba is also one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world.

Jason Navallo

#54. Social-media platforms have become places where it's acceptable to brag,

Katy Steinmetz

#55. Day by day, the number of devices, platforms,
and browsers that need to work with your site grows.
Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift
in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.

Jeffrey Veen

#56. The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.

Satya Nadella

#57. The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

Nana Awere Damoah

#58. For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Debby Ryan

#59. Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.

Lisa Gansky

#60. Before social networking platforms, people needed to know you to know your name. Today, people only need to know your name to know you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#61. As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.

Keith Teare

#62. A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'

Lester Holt

#63. While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#64. At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

Cameron Russell

#65. I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

Manolo Blahnik

#66. To the naked eye, he's decent kissing height if I wear platforms, though of course a live test will be required before official certification of Kissing Compatibility can be issued.
It will be issued.
Soon.
Or I might implode.

Laini Taylor

#67. One of the things I've become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms.

Ashton Kutcher

#68. When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Andy Hargreaves

#69. Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

Elif Safak

#70. Amazon, being a provider - not just on the playing field - is, of course, opening up a whole new set of possibilities. At the same time, Amazon also understands platforms. For them, theatrical is an extremely important event. I also believe it's the best way of seeing a movie.

Nicolas Winding Refn

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

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#72. Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Jose Andres

#73. I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

J.K. Rowling

#74. The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

Barbara Bush

#75. As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

Keith Teare

#76. When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.

Michael Kors

#77. We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

Eric Schmidt

#78. When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing.

John Battelle

#79. But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

Trip Hawkins

#80. So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

Michael K. Powell

#81. All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

Hudson Taylor

#82. The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing.

Mark Zuckerberg

#83. Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it's amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves.

Shane Snow

#84. Everywhere Janner looked, there were ropes, poles, platforms, and a thousand other ways to break an arm or a leg. It was beautiful.

Andrew Peterson

#85. Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

Maureen Dowd

#86. Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

Niklas Zennstrom

#87. As the physical, digital, and biological worlds continue to converge, new technologies and platforms will increasingly enable citizens to engage with governments, voice their opinions, coordinate their efforts, and even circumvent the supervision of public authorities.

Klaus Schwab

#88. I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.

Sonu Nigam

#89. The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

#90. From Out of the Darkness (book 2):
Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"
His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire.

Jaime Rush

#91. I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Simon Sinek

#92. I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented.

Scarlett Johansson

#93. Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.

John Hagel III

#94. There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies.

John Battelle

#95. I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

Roelof Botha

#96. In digital, you may have your big launch, but then you continue to work, and you continue to innovate and continue to enhance your platforms as you go along.

Alison Moore

#97. What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad have platforms to talk about good things. Bad people are never bad in their own eyes, while good people are never good enough in their own eyes. This is the kind of world that we live in.

C. JoyBell C.

#98. Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.

Sundar Pichai

#99. What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.

Chris Brogan

#100. We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

Mark Cuban