45 Quotes by Pete Cashmore

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.

You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.