Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Battelle

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.

The deal shows the importance of search ads for AOL. Search has been and will be the biggest category of online ads.

We take this election very seriously. We know that Hillary will face both a Republican opponent and a host of negative ads from the party and supposedly independent committees. We want to be sure she has the resources to wage an effective campaign.

Eric Schmidt

In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.

There are 365 days in the year, and as a working actor, you might only work 17 of them. You might only need to do two ads and you can afford to live for the year, but it doesn't make for a very satisfactory or fulfilling life. The point isn't to not work - it's to work.

There is a proven model with putting ads on the site, but it has to be in volume.

Thomas Dekker

There are plenty of things that are wrong. Marxists used to use the term "false consciousness," which is very out of fashion these days. If we were to ask people how ads work, most people would say, "They work by tricking people but they don't trick me.

The problem with Super Bowl advertising now is that companies feel they have to do it because it's their only chance to reach a mass audience. Prices continue to rise even though the usefulness of the ads have diminished.

Until now, there is no way for the user to actually interact with these ads in the video.

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.

Whether these suits have any validity is another question, but I think you're going to see more of them. I've seen ads saying, 'If you've been a customer of XYZ firm and lost money, you'll be able to recover it.' You'll see a lot of ambulance-chasing lawyers trying to feed off of this.

Fred Thompson

We're going to have some amendments, ... I think that if we increase the hard money limits, that we would do better with regard to the soft money and the independent ads situation. If people had their choice, I think they'd give it the old-fashioned way.

We feel confident in our strategy because we have had proven success by embedding our planar EM tool -- Momentum -- into the ADS flow. This has been a clear advantage for our customers, and we believe the same market success will be duplicated with this full 3D technology.

We're reaching out right now to find out where they all are. We've contacted many of them, but we're still running ads in local newspapers. We've even taken out banners towed by airplanes.

We know from the recent Super Bowl in this country that a lot of these beer ads were aimed at men between 21 and 34. So we certainly have this perception that young people are drinking the most, but that's not necessarily the case.

We are proud to join Mrs. Bush and continue our successful partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America with this new advertising, which has the potential to positively impact so many young people in our country. I am confident that these touching ads will encourage many more adults to become mentors and bring magic into a child's life.

We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that don't replicate what's on television, because people can't stand that.

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

Alex Berenson

America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.

Bill Gurley

Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.

You are seeing ads in the newspapers for (mine) orientation classes. They used to teach mining in the high schools 20 years ago, but they stopped. Well, they're teaching mining again now.

Margaret Heffernan

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

The issue is the insensitivity to the victims. We're not taking a stand pro or con on capital punishment, but we felt these ads were inappropriate; they open a lot of old wounds. Sears firmly felt that this kind of a campaign was not consistent with what Sears stands for.

Carl Wilson

After the group got real popular, Fender asked us to endorse their instruments. I think the deal was they'd give them to you then you'd let them print ads and stuff like that. This was around 1962.

Incumbents are re-elected the vast majority of the time, so a challenger like Freddy needs an overwhelming emotion argument in his ads and on the street for why the mayor should be fired. Freddy never went negative, but he had nothing to go positive with, either.

Judd Rose

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

It's well known that many pop-up ads are close to bargain basement prices now.

I want kids to remember that they should learn not because they have to, but because they want to. I want them to pick a career they want as opposed to looking through the want ads and picking whatever is available.

Rob Portman

The TV ads have been coming hot and heavy in Ohio. I think the Obama campaign has outspent the Romney campaign by two-to-one or three-to-one, depending on the analysis you look at. People are tired of the attacks already, and here we are in July.

The TV ads give you the sense of being so real, and the print ads take that and apply it to your life.

They are not only illegal they are disrespectful to the community. We believe in removing urban blight and now we have a major corporation come in and just throw up ads without approval.

There's some angst in his administration and in his campaign that speaks to not having the money they thought they'd have and at the other side spending so much on their ads. There are some people in the GOP who will see the ads and are breathing a little sigh of relief that at long last the battle has begun. He's beginning to fight back.

There's no other media like it. TV ads evaporate into the ether.