My collection of memorable quotes from SXSW 2011. I couldn't attend all the sessions so if you think there is another quote that should be mentioned here, let me know!

1. MOST MEMORABLE
FROM
SXSW
INTERACTIVE 2011

2. “The reason we're at SXSW, and
the reason everyone else is here,
is that it's the most concentrated
influx of exciting, fun, early
adopter, tech people who are
willing to try out anything at
least once.”
Seth Priebatsch
@princess_misia

3. “The environment here
(SXSW) is great because it is
an environment that is
dominated by nobody. The
result is that you really get
a lot cooking. I like that.”
Barry Diller
@princess_misia

4. “To succeed you need
passion and a relentless
will to chase the big idea,
while having fun.”
Tim O’Reilly
@princess_misia

5. “Ronald Reagan is the ‘father
of FourSquare’ because when
the Navy put up the GPS
system, he chose to keep it
open to the public.”
Tim O’Reilly
@princess_misia

6. “I just want to live longer
than Ray Kurzweil. I figure if
he’s right, I’ll live forever, and
if he’s wrong, it will be
funny.”
Tim O’Reilly
@princess_misia

7. “When the Wall Street Journal
and the Washington post start
referring to people who don't
use Facebook as 'Facebook
refusionists,' that's when we start
to realize how much we can't be
disconnected from these
networks.”
@princess_misia
Genevieve Bell

8. “It was Sumner Redstone
who created the ‘content is
king’ thing because he had
content and he wanted to
be a king.”
Barry Diller
@princess_misia

9. “We need an unambiguous
rule that no one will step
between the publisher and
the consumer.”
Barry Diller
@princess_misia

10. “Don't invest in chasing
crowds. Invest in ideas.”
Barry Diller
@princess_misia

11. “One of the reasons why I
believe in God is that there
is no other explanation for
Apple's continuous survival
than the existence of God.”
Guy Kawasaki
@princess_misia

12. “The ultimate response to
‘Thank You’ is ‘I know you
would do the same for me’.
Let people know that they
owe you.”
Guy Kawasaki
@princess_misia

13. “You have to trust others
before they trust you.”
Guy Kawasaki
@princess_misia

14. “You want the likability of
Virgin, trustworthiness of
Zappos and a product of
Apple.”
Guy Kawasaki
@princess_misia

15. “The reason people love their
parents is because they loved
you first. Brands should
consider the metaphor and
give to their customers before
asking things from them.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
@princess_misia

16. “Social media isn’t a fad
because it is inherently
human. Lots of companies
are going to fail because
they want to monetize first
and offer value second.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
@princess_misia

17. “If content is king, context
is God.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
@princess_misia

18. “Content calendars are like
going to a cocktail party
with a script.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
@princess_misia

19. “The mobile phone really
acts as a cursor that
connects the physical and
digital worlds together.”
Marissa Meyer
@princess_misia

20. "Your campaign is not a
booty call, it’s a long term
relationship.”
Felicia Day
@princess_misia

21. "I believe strongly in being
able to keep the Internet an
open platform. The Internet is
a beautiful place. We're living
in the sundance of our time”
Felicia Day
@princess_misia

22. “It's not how big your fan
base is that counts, it is how
resonant you are with your
fan base.”
Felicia Day
@princess_misia

23. “Mainstream is nothing
anymore. Mainstream is
whatever you are
interested in.”
Felicia Day
@princess_misia

24. “It’s possible that in the
future we might have to
legislate what percent of a
person’s body has to be
organic to be a sentient
being.”
Shane Kempton
@princess_misia

25. “Linux users are the
flagellant monks among
us.”
Shane Kempton
@princess_misia

26. “Apple has always tried to create an
emotional response. They’ve
designed the software to make you
feel a certain way. They use terms
like ‘magical’ and ‘beautiful.’ The
way Apple goes about controlling its
ecosystem feels very much like the
way the church controlled content.”
Shane Kempton
@princess_misia

27. “An Open Internet: The
Last, Best Hope for
Independent Producers.”
Al Franken
@princess_misia

28. “Entrepreneurs come from
nowhere and change lives
everywhere.”
Al Franken
@princess_misia

29. “It’s one Internet, folks. The news
system now incorporates the
people formerly known as the
audience. Twitter and Facebook
are hugely powerful as
distributors of news.”
Jay Rosen
@princess_misia

30. “Bloggers are closer to Tom
Paine than Bob Woodward is.”
Jay Rosen
@princess_misia

31. “When you can take an idea and
put it out there and have people
connect with it, respond to it or
interact with it, and make it
better, I think that's sort of the
magic of the collective conscience
of what we call the internets.”
Ashton Kutcher
@princess_misia

32. “Engagement is really what
makes people lifelong
donors.”
Leo Ramirez
@princess_misia

33. “Giving doesn't just feel
good, it is a really good
business strategy.”
Blake Mycoskie
@princess_misia

34. “When you incorporate
giving into your business,
you attract and maintain
the most amazing
employees in the world.”
Blake Mycoskie
@princess_misia

35. “When you incorporate
giving into your business in
an authentic and
transparent way, your
customers become your
best marketers.”
Blake Mycoskie
@princess_misia

36. “The next 12 months for TV interfaces:
way more personalization. Although
the barriers are who shares who’s
data with who. We’ll see it at the app
and platform level. Across multiple
devices. But (the questions remains)
can TV be made more relative to the
household based on all of the data?”
David Maher Roberts
@princess_misia

37. “What makes the world
work, what makes things
better, is passionate
virtuosity.”
Bruce Sterling
@princess_misia

38. “Facebook and Wikileaks
have more political clout
than State Department and
Pentagon combined.”
Bruce Sterling
@princess_misia

39. “A futurist is criticizing
what is not yet invented.”
Bruce Sterling
@princess_misia

40. “People under 25 are the
victims of a decaying status
quo. It's a gerontocracy.”
Bruce Sterling
@princess_misia

41. “Be realistic. Demand
impossible.”
Bruce Sterling
@princess_misia

42. THANK
YOU!
Marta Majewska
Porter Novelli
@princess_misia
@princess_misia