Clicks Quotes - Page 7

• I know when somebody is trying to get something out of me for clicks. And sometimes I feel like giving it to them. Sometimes I feel like being real and open to them, but at the same time, I know how much I can give you.

  Kevin Durant

  Real, Giving, Trying

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Communication, Want, Internet

  Source: www.fool.com

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• I've got my iPod and I've got it on shuffle. If I'm not ready for one, I'll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.

  Bill Walton

  Children, Ipods, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Attachment, Engineering, Deception

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Character, Ebay

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• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Bored, Incentives

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• In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Computer, Disclosure, Agree

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• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Song, Cancer

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• We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

  Nick Hornby

  Agreement, Punctuation Marks, Locks

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Pride, Casting

  Source: collider.com

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• When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

  Derren Brown

  Real, Hands, Magic

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• I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

  Joan Rivers

  Regret, Party, Political

  "6 Lessons Joan Rivers Learned Throughout Her Life" by Jen Glantz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2014.

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• The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Knowing, Challenges

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• Users scan a page looking for trigger words. If they find a trigger word, they click on it but if they don’t find it, they go to search. That’s the way it works on 99% of sites, although Amazon is an exception. That’s because Amazon has done a great job of training users to know that absolutely nothing on the home page is of any use.

  Jared Spool

  Jobs, Home, Training

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• Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass.

  Canibus

  Rap, Cds, Long

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• When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

  Stephen Kanner

  Design, Understanding, Architecture

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• Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sexy, Stars, Interesting

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Mean, Cat, Media

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• Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.

  Dan O'Neill

  Unique, People, Needs

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• Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.

  Charlie Cook

  Moving, Average, Presidential

  "About RealClearPolitics". National Journal, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Mean, World

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• Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out of bed to continue pursuing your dream. The kind of dream I'm talking about gives meaning to your life. it is the ultimate motivator.

  James C. Collins

  Motivational, Dream, Talking

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• If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

  John Aniston

  Technology, Ifs, I Can

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• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

  Mark Haddon

  Distance, Father, Fall

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