Marco Arment Quotes

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

The goal is to become the central hub of publishing, where we have all the written material - user-generated and professional. We want to be the place where people can publish instantly to their audiences... and to get there, it's just about doing things step by step.

Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual preferences and family obligations, not just their traditional gender roles.

If I bring my work home, it's wonderful.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week, three days a week, four days a week. And I'm perfectly comfortable with all that.