Dennis Crowley Quotes

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.

When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.

If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

As we've got more data, and ClassPass has grown, we've had to change rather than have a one-size fits all approach.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

Every single project deserves a different approach.

My rule is, if you want to build something that does all things for all people, it's not going to work real well.

What we strive for is how we can provide the best performance and best design, whatever the customers want.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.

The multiplexes audience has one way of thinking. When they are all sitting together temperamentally, there is room for a filmmaker to reach out to a far larger audience in a comfortable way.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.