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

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.

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.

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.

I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.

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

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.