If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

There's always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far.

More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

One thing I'll say about Hitler that many people don't realize - and I don't mean to besmirch the industry - but he did get his start, not only as an artist, but as an advertising man writing art for advertisements.

When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since.

What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better.