#content

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#all things #allow #contented #defence #down

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business. ↗

— Bob Iger

#business #content #good #good time #though

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators. ↗

— Bob Iger

#business #capital #capital investment #consumers #content

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers. ↗

— Bob Iger

#because #believe #brand #consumers #content

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#contented #contented mind #enjoy #greatest #greatest blessing

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#more #never #others #ourselves #than

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

#found #height #joy #love #neighbor

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#discontent #greater #men #nation #rebellion

If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then right” is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of “big media” today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation’s pirates join this generation’s country club-until now. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#media #piracy #nature