Best Reddit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”

Science Understanding Knowledge Learning Reddit

Author:Elon Musk

“It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.”

Writing Draws Twenties Stores Comic Posts Beach Mail Bucks Tempting Reddit

Author:Randall Munroe

“If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.”

People Ifs Real Happens Band Jokes Originals Old Jokes Reddit

Author:Chris Hardwick

“With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.”

People Thinking Honest Willing Angry Rage Unhappy Buttons Yes You Can Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.”

People Thinking Community Powerful News Unique Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.”

Social Media Personality Social Media Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.”

Real Stories Real Story Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.”

Thinking World Force Community Powerful Changing The World Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.”

People Thinking Helping Bigs Steps Team Discovery Features Users Pipeline Functionality Reddit Mods

Author:Yishan Wong

“Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.”

Mean Process Community Members News Capacity Strive Links Site Interfere Strife Our Community Editorials Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.”

Men Growth Spring Come Up Posts Elsewhere Fourth Harvest Wheat Minus Oats Reddit

Author:Plautus

“I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?”

Body Choices Answers Democracy Policy Citizens Thousand Direct Busy Work Out Favors Representatives Selected Right Answers Reddit Direct Democracy

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.”

Space Internet Squares Utility Reddit

Author:John Scalzi

“I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.”

People Trying Doe I Can Ideas Seems Names My Time Pretending Spells Users Impersonate Reddit

Author:Misha Collins

“Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.”

World Real Names Information Identity Accounts Sensitive Real World Users Commonplace Reddit

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.”

Way Kind Community Building Foundation Site Contributing Invaluable Endorsements Readership Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.”

Thinking Bigs Community Numbers Millions Months Unique Size Eight Site Traffic Visitors Weird Things Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.”

People Ifs Years Stills Three Community Six Seven Site Developers Contractor Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.”

Way Form Lost Realizing Community Shapes Over It Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.”

Ifs Reading Fronts Pages Users Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.”

People Knows Hate Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.”

Thinking Way Done Kids Company Seeing Angel Investors Traffic Just Kids Reddit

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.”

Ifs World May Use School Church Republican Diversity High School Hanging Out Secular Ideological World Politics School Friends Reddit High School Friends

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.”

Party Talking Hell Information Connected Faster Flood Instagram Cocktails Hyper Texting Hypnotic Cocktail Parties Mailing Reddit

Author:Maureen Dowd

“Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.”

Firsts Looks Shows Age Fighting Company Importance Accidents Data Who We Are Digital Instagram Unprecedented Thoroughness Reddit Business First

Book:Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

Source: Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

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