You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.
— Chris Hardwick
We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?
The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.
If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.
Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.
Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.
I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.
Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
