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All Quotes by author - Robert Scoble

" Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader. "

" Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you. "

" Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess. "

" At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. "

" Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it. "

" Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook. "

" Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc. "

" Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list. "

" Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do. "

" Facebook is teachable. If you hide items, you'll see fewer of those kinds of items in the future. Like more items, and you'll see more of those in the future. "

" Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it. "

" I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up. "

" I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. "

" I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds. "

" I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle. "

" I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that. "

" I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define. "

" I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society. "

" If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere. "

" If you're in business, and you don't understand how that word of mouth works, you won't be able to take full advantage of it, how to get full adoption by getting that network to talk about you. "

" I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!' "

" I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. "

" I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them! "

" I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. "

" I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise. "

" I'm so tired of the privacy advocates. "

" Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative. "

" IOS users tend to be ones that really care about being online all the time. They also tend to be willing to pay for that. You might say they are richer users, which is partially true. "

" I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page. "

" It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable. "

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