Commercialism Quotes

I`m totally anti-commercialism. I would never do commercials where people hold the product by their head and tell you how great it is, I just wouldn`t do that stuff. It`s all inference ... The Levis commercials I did weren`t really about jeans, the Nike commercials weren`t about shoes. The `Instant Karma` spot was some of the better stuff I got offered, and it was never about people going, "Buy this shoe, this shoe will change everything," because I think that`s nonsense. Anybody looking outside themselves to make themselves whole is delusional and probably sick.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.