I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business model, and so they have to satisfy their advertisers.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

Don't make a wish you aren't willing to come true. Don't dream a dream you aren't willing to pursue. Don't love a man you can't say, "I do".

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

It’s through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.

The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.