Top 97 Zuckerman Quotes
#1. Gone were the days when Zuckerman had only to worry about Zuckerman making money: henceforth he would have to worry about his money making money.
Philip Roth
#3. You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman.
Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.
Philip Roth
#4. But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm ... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig' ... we have no ordinary pig."
"Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.
E.B. White
#5. Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red China, it would be to put ten thousand miles between himself and those discussions.
Philip Roth
#6. I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But ... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
Ethan Zuckerman
#7. It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
Ethan Zuckerman
#8. George Mitchell wasn't the nation's first fracker. Mitchell was mighty early, though. "The majors didn't bother with fracking, they didn't want to fool with it," he says. "I saw it as the new technology.
Gregory Zuckerman
#9. The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#11. The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.
Andrew Zuckerman
#12. Religion refers to concepts, rituals, experiences, and institutions that humans construct based upon their belief in the supernatural, otherworldly, or spiritual. For
Phil Zuckerman
#13. While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
Ethan Zuckerman
#15. I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses in high school. But I am a modern geek.
Josh Zuckerman
#16. Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.
Ethan Zuckerman
#17. The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.
Ethan Zuckerman
#18. Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.
Andrew Zuckerman
#19. People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.
Ethan Zuckerman
#20. Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
Ethan Zuckerman
#21. I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.
Josh Zuckerman
#22. People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.
Ethan Zuckerman
#23. For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#24. When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.
Ethan Zuckerman
#25. There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
Ethan Zuckerman
#26. Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
Andrew Zuckerman
#27. What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.
Andrew Zuckerman
#28. The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..
Ethan Zuckerman
#29. 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
#30. Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.
Ethan Zuckerman
#31. Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#33. The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting ... or blindly resistant.
Ethan Zuckerman
#35. I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#37. Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.
Phil Zuckerman
#38. You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.
Andrew Zuckerman
#39. These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#40. If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.
Ethan Zuckerman
#41. A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
Ethan Zuckerman
#42. It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
Ethan Zuckerman
#43. You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
Ethan Zuckerman
#44. most of the world is bubbling with religious passions."1
Phil Zuckerman
#45. while it's easier than ever to share information and perspectives from different parts of the world, we may now often encounter a narrower picture of the world than in less connected days.
Ethan Zuckerman
#46. I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
Ethan Zuckerman
#47. The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#48. On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.
Ethan Zuckerman
#49. Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.
Ethan Zuckerman
#50. I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.
Josh Zuckerman
#51. Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.
Ethan Zuckerman
#52. The founding fathers went out of their way to establish a clear "wall of separation" between religion and state, to quote Thomas Jefferson. They reasoned, as James Madison so cleverly articulated, that both religion and government exist in greater purity if kept apart.
Phil Zuckerman
#53. I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
Ethan Zuckerman
#55. I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.
Ethan Zuckerman
#57. Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#58. The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.
Ethan Zuckerman
#60. Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.
Ethan Zuckerman
#62. secular people don't believe in life after death, but rather, they believe in life before death.
Phil Zuckerman
#63. People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
Ethan Zuckerman
#64. In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming, funny and poignant. In life, I adore my girlfriend. She is the most adorable person I have ever met - from her silly jokes to her cute teeth to her little drawings.
Josh Zuckerman
#65. Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#66. Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#67. It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
Ethan Zuckerman
#68. I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
Andrew Zuckerman
#70. The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
Ethan Zuckerman
#71. When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
Ethan Zuckerman
#72. A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
Ethan Zuckerman
#73. Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
Ethan Zuckerman
#74. If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Ethan Zuckerman
#75. ...there's no mistake if you can resolve it, whether it's in your music or in your life. Sometimes the mistake motivates you or elevates you to a different circumstance that can be better. If I make a mistake, I'm going to develop that mistake, so it doesn't sound like a mistake. -Dave Brubeck
Andrew Zuckerman
#76. [According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.
Ethan Zuckerman
#78. Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#79. Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.
Ethan Zuckerman
#80. Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
Ethan Zuckerman
#81. It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
Ethan Zuckerman
#82. My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.
Phil Zuckerman
#83. Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#84. Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.
Ethan Zuckerman
#85. The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
Ethan Zuckerman
#86. Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
Ethan Zuckerman
#87. Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
Ethan Zuckerman
#88. one can never predict or foresee what lies ahead when it comes to humans and religion.
Phil Zuckerman
#89. The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
Ethan Zuckerman
#90. Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#91. On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'
Ethan Zuckerman
#92. When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.
Ethan Zuckerman
#93. Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
Ethan Zuckerman
#94. Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.
Phil Zuckerman
#95. The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
Ethan Zuckerman
#96. Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#97. These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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