Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.