“Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.” TryingUseStuffTechnologyProduceProductsRevolutionBeatsStrategyExtrasPensPlatformsIncumbentsSlick Author:Cory Doctorow
“Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.” NextStuffProduceColorMudMixingMuddyComplementRendering Author:Simmie Knox
“Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.” WritingFeelingsStuffWorstProduceSafetyDullIntimidated Author:Lucy Prebble
“My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.” LooksStuffSoundSimpleProduceMusic IsSymbols Author:Chuck Berry
“In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make.” WorldWantLongCountryNationsStuffWealthResultsSituationRichProducePerspectiveGoldProductivitySignificanceMetalsOther CountriesReservesMeasurementMonetary Author:Malcolm Forbes
“I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don’t write, and make more money.” WritingHelpingAbleJoyStuffRichGreaterProduceAmountAssumingDecentMore MoneyVersusGet Rich Author:Julie Delpy
“I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.” PeopleWantNeedsFilmFunStuffMy OwnProduceProjectsFilmmakerBoresDocumentariesMoguls Author:James Cameron
“I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.” ThinkingLittlesMomentsCharacterActorsStuffProducePerspectiveProjectsBeatsDirectStartingCaughtCaught UpUmbrella Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.” WantFeelsStuffMy OwnActingCompanyCreativePlansProduceSettlingGetting OldGetting OlderSettling Down Author:Denis Leary
“Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.” WayTurnsStuffPiecesProduceScriptsEdits Author:Wanda Sykes
“I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.” ThinkingWorldTryingIdeasCountryKidsStuffEffortAttitudeCreativityProduceRaisesValuable Author:Adrian Tomine
“The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.” WritingDifferentDoneUsedStuffRocksProduceIndustryLuckyBandSingersUsed To BeSongwritersSoloMusic IndustryRock BandsGood Bands Author:James Iha
“The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.” WorldWellsStuffProduceLikesDamn Author:Warren Buffett
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.” KnowsWritingTryingHardWantedArtistSongStuffSoundMy OwnProduceMaterialsNormalSingingSongwritersGoing To WorkTwistsJustinDig DeepGeneric Author:Karl Wolf
“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.” IfsLittlesDoneWantedFormStuffBitsPiecesFrontsProducePaperLittle BitDrawingPocketsPotPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.” NeedsKindBeautifulGuyLeftStuffPerfectFiguresProduceCustomersStoresHarvestNot PerfectCarrotsGnarly Author:Mario Batali