Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Andrew Keen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entrepreneur Andrew Keen.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author. He is particularly known for his view that the current Internet culture and the Web 2.0 trend may be debasing culture, an opinion he shares with Jaron Lanier and Nicholas G. Carr among others. Keen is especially concerned about the way that the current Internet culture undermines the authority of learned experts and the work of professionals.

American - Entrepreneur | Born: 1960

Source: Wikipedia

We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

Andrew Keen

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Andrew Keen

There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

Andrew Keen

We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.

Andrew Keen

For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

Andrew Keen

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

Andrew Keen

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

Andrew Keen

Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.

Andrew Keen

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

Andrew Keen

We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.

Andrew Keen

The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

Andrew Keen

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Andrew Keen

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