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

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.

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.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

I'm keeping the pixie. I hope I inspire people... it's really cool to have short hair.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Personally I prefer Gospel music.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was talking about?' 'What if I didn't get excited?'

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.