Tim Wu:

I write about business in the way that writers have traditionally written about war. I'm interested in the quest for dominance, in industrial warfare. I believe that capitalism, by its nature, is about conflict, and ultimately the life and death of firms.

David Axelrod:

We have to deal with the world as we find it.

Paul Krugman:

The main reason Mr. Obama finds himself in this situation is that two years ago he was not, in fact, prepared to deal with the world as he was going to find it. And it seems as if he still isn't.

James Surowiecki:

Opposing the new [health care] law while reaping the benefits of Medicare is essentially saying, "I've got mine -- good luck getting yours."

Joe Nocera:

They just want theirs. That is the culture they have created.

Dave Winer:

Everyone has a scam. This year the scam is to grab all the user's data and resell it.

Eric Schmidt:

You get a billion people doing something, there's lots of ways to make money. Absolutely, trust me. We'll get lots of money for it.

Paul Buchheit:

When you are at some place as successful as Google, you start to think you do everything right.

Jay Rosen:

Ninety percent of everything is crap, but that's nothing novel. There's just more everything now.

Paul Buchheit:

One of the downsides of having worked on something like [Gmail] that was notable is that everyone keeps expecting that you are going to work on that again.

Merlin Mann:

It takes a lot of patience and it takes a lot of self-awareness to be open to the fact that you may become popular about something that you didn't want to become popular about.

At a certain point, you don't get to pick that anymore.

Tim Wu:

The government has conferred its blessing on monopolies in information industries with unusual frequency. Sometimes this protection has yielded reciprocal benefits, with the owner of an information network offering the state something valuable in return, like warrantless wiretaps.

Decius:

Money for me, databases for you.