Robert Scoble Quotes

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

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

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

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'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.

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.

Never use pages for personal brand!

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

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

Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry.

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.

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

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

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.

I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you.

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.

It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.

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

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.

Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only.

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

I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.

My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.

Make sure you like, comment and share other people's items. That teaches Facebook what kinds of things you like to see in your feed.

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!'

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

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

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

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.

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

There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.

I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.