Quotes from Nick Denton

The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.

I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.