Quotes About Diversity

TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." —David Foster Wallace

Si la industria del espectáculo en el siglo XXse centraba en el éxito y la popularidad de los productos, la del siglo XXI se centrará en los nichos.

Rather than top-down innovation by some of the biggest companies in the world, we're seeing bottom-up innovation by countless individuals, including amateurs, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

Variety is free: It costs no more to make every product different than to make them all the same. 2. Complexity is free: A minutely detailed product, with many fiddly little components, can be 3-D printed as cheaply as a plain block of plastic. The computer doesn't care how many calculations it has to do. 3. Flexibility is free: Changing a product after production has started just means changing the instruction code. The machines stay the same.

Individualmente, ninguna de estas canciones es popular, pero hay tantas que colectivamente representan un mercado sustancial.

only peer production has the capacity to extend as far as the Long Tail can go.

Una manera de considerar la diferencia entre las opciones limitadas de ayer y la abundancia de hoy es imaginar nuestra cultura como un océano en cuya superficie sólo existen islas de popularidad. Hay una isla musical compuesta de álbumes de gran venta, una isla de películas compuesta de éxitos de taquilla, un archipiélago de programas populares de televisión, y así sucesivamente.

Más del 99 por ciento de los álbumes musicales existentes en el mercado no están disponibles en Wal-Mart.

The urban theorist Jane Jacobs observed many years ago that huge cites create environments where small niches can flourish.

More important, that second question assumes that gender is all about sex, or that sexual preference is at the core of our gender. I can't speak for other transsexuals, but there is no way on God's green earth I would

Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel," he says.

We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.

The sheer size of the country, the mixed ethnic, religious, and racial composition of the people, and the diffuseness of power under our federal system have all tended to blunt or minimize citizen-versus-state conflicts and to throw citizen-versus-citizen conflicts into high relief.

Europe is a miracle.

I took on 'What Would Be Your Miracle' because I wanted to do something far removed from 'Big Brother' and 'The Voice.'

I think with 'Hamilton,' Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It's miraculous. You look at '1776,' it's a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at 'Hamilton,' and it's just the faces of America.

Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'

I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester, there were limited resources. I'd never met a trans person before.

For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.

The BBC should mirror the country.