Pete Cashmore Quotes

Technology is only meaningful when it reaches the people.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

At Apple, we believe that people with passion can change the world.

Television is not a gimmick.

My brother is about energy. SpaceX is his passion, and I love being a part of that company. Energy is where he spends a lot of his time and thinking in terms of having an impact on the world.

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.