You know, it's so funny that the internet's become a series of traps where you do sort of innocent things like give… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
One thing I'll say about Hitler that many people don't realize - and I don't mean to besmirch the industry - but… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it's a little… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The Holy Grail of advertising has always been advertisement that people want to watch, which occasionally happens. You know, the Super Bowl,… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers,… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising,… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an exclusive institution… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside, and so… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Now, he doesn't control the media, but Donald Trump has been incredibly successful in having his face appear everywhere. You cannot go a day… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an “illusion of… — tim wu Copy Share Image
“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,” — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
