Quotes from Tom Anderson

Facebook really has made the world a better place.

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

Photography has literally changed my life.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

I tend to 'splurge' for convenience. I'll pay a lot to not waste time.

I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.

Bands are going to MySpace because it's free and they don't have to know how to do a Web site.

It can be a little scary. Like one time I posted a link to NPR because I thought it was interesting, and it took down their Web site.

Making a website is similar to making a movie-hundreds of people work on it, one person makes the final decision, and they make them every minute of the day.

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.

We asked people why they didn't go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they'd say it was a site for teenagers.

I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?

Time is the most important thing to me - how can you do all the things you want to do with such limited time... I'm hoping science of life extension makes progress.

MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.

Google is basically too big for anyone to go against in a serious way.