We’re still digging through our notes from SXSW Interactive and wanted to present some of our favorite quotes from the event:

“Institutions fight to keep problems that serve their solution.” –Clay Shirky, Consultant/Author/Teacher

“Social media scares the sh*t out of everybody, because they’re not sure what to do with it.” –Brian Solis, Author/PR Agency Owner

“We’re like eight years into this experiment.” –Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley on the location-based craze.

“PR is not going to fix your customer service department.” –Frank Elasion, Senior Director, Comcast National Customer Service

“Last year was about listening, this year is about action.” –Erin Korogodsky, Senior Account Manager, Scout Labs

“Criticism of the mainstream media is misconstrued.” –Markos Moulitsas, Founder, Daily Kos

“I can’t see a future where CNN is solely the middle man.” –Lila King, Senior Producer for Interactive Storytelling and User Participation at CNN.com

“[Gawker Publisher] Nick Denton won’t keep a guy in Mexico when it’s physically dangerous to be there.” –David Carr, The New York Times

“I’ve had enough of agency life.” –Michael O’Connor Clarke, VP Marketing Communications, Freshbooks

“We have such a value on immediacy.” –Randi Zuckerberg, Marketing Director, Facebook

“I would hope the link economy would reward investigative journalism.” –Pete Cashmore, Founder, Mashable

“The Huffington Post and Google News are siphoning off ad revenue from every newspaper in the world.” –Bob Garfield, NPR Correspondent/Author

“[Online publishers] make money the more often we click. They have an economic incentive to keep us distracted.” –Nicholas Carr, Author

“I’ll be the first to admit to being a bit green as an interviewer, and entirely new to SXSW.” –Umair Haque in his first blog post since his widely criticized interview of Twitter CEO Evan Williams.

“What’s popular isn’t always what’s good.” –Pete Cashmore, Founder, Mashable

“This is the Davos of digital.” –B. Bonin Bough, Director of Digital and Social Media at PepsiCo

“If you think the internet is going to replace cable, you’re crazy.” –Mark Cuban, HDNet

“Hey, is that Ashton Kutcher?” –Everyone at every party

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