Quotes from Tom Anderson

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

We want people to stay on MySpace. We'll give them whatever they might want to do.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

Ultimately, our goal is to provide all artists with the opportunity to make a living on MySpace.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

Parents aren't clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don't want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.

I won't even say who I'm going to vote for. I don't want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.

I'd heard comedians working MySpace into their routines and giving out their URLs as early as 2004.

It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

I can't stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.

I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

It's our hope that MySpace Comedy, much like Music and Film before it, will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.

It's our hope MySpace Comedy will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.

But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Thus the chief purpose of art education for life is to help students understand something about themselves and others through art and thereby contribute to personal growth, social progress, and a sense of global community.

Currency is… a shared delusion in the minds of all men, a necessary delusion if civilised society were not to fall… yet so many lives, so many cities and kingdoms and nations, ultimately depend on hoping that no man ever stops to wonder why he values discs of a shiny yellow metal so highly…"   -