Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Open rules! Open standards! Open findings! Open precedents!

Washington is a city which drives us all to the lowest common denominator.

We are connecting everything to everything

The issues at the core of our national debates are more complicated than can be explained in soundbites and slogans by talking-heads and special guests. The media caters to our TL;DR-afflicted nation with over-simplified lowest common denominator journalism which completely fails us when the issues are not black-or-white or when the answers require caveats. Nuanced discussions don’t make attention grabbing headlines or dramatic journalistic copy so media reporting disproportionately accentuates extreme perspectives to create the conflict-drama that drives viewers and readership. The resulting rhetoric polarizes rather than convinces.

Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.

There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.