Quotes About Consumption

For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

While there are certainly food-focused content out there on the Web and on TV, most of this content need to weave through many layers of editing before it reaches the viewer.

The difference between television, films and the web is that unlike the former, the latter is not appointment viewing. You decide the time you want to watch and how much you want to watch. The web is for the viewer.

We recognized early on that media consumption was evolving and customers were looking for moving images to include as part of their advertising campaigns, website designs and corporate presentations.

I am allowed one matchbox-sized piece of cheese a week.

I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I keep sour grapes in the fridge all the time. And I eat those all day long, all week long, all month. All the time.

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.

The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

Poor people can't cut their emissions - they don't make them.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

I'm pretty great at eating. Mostly popcorn. I'm serious: I can finish a whole bag of popcorn in under 5 minutes, give or take.

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.