The World Motivation
There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.
“There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.”
— Harper Reed · Create
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“There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.”
“All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.”
“When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my friends.' That's the magic.”
“I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.”
“One of the things that I used to make sure I'd do was to always make sure I'd have dinner at home because I needed that disconnect from work. Even when it was crazy, I'd go home at, like, 10 o'clock and have dinner. That way, I had time where I could decompress a little bit and then go back in.”
“When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline.”
“In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.”
“I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.”
“I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.”
“Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.”
“I just love social media. I love that you can create your own image of yourself.”
“If you have no road map, you have to create your own.”