Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

I'm kind of concerned the combined effect, not only Google, all these companies is kind of to make us more boring and that seems the opposite of what the Internet was supposed to be.

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

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

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.

All business models have something challenging about them, but the problem with the attention merchant business model they have is they need to keep increasing the amount of ads they deliver to people and therefore make their product worse.

In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for its own purposes to get people to join the army and other things.