--- title: "Best Tim Wu Sayings" description: "Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at th..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b046/author-tim-wu-7845.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b046/author-tim-wu-7845.jpg) # Tim Wu **87** quotes in **487** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023. ## Quick Facts About Tim Wu Notable works The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires ## About Tim Wu Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023. He is also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for significant contributions to antitrust and communications policy, coining the phrase "network neutrality" in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook. ## Quotes by Tim Wu · Page 3 > [I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/i-think-google-is-the-most-successful-attention-merchant-profitable/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Advertising](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advertising/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/tim-wu-7845_advertising_i-think-google-is-the-most-successful-at_1383632.png) > [Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/advertising-just-keeps-getting-heavier-and-heavier-and-heavier-it/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Ads](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ads/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85d/tim-wu-7845_ads_advertising-just-keeps-getting-heavier-a_387707.png) > [“What Lippmann took from the war—as he explained in his 1922 classic Public Opinion—was the gap between the true complexity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/what-lippmann-took-from-the-war-as-he-explained-in-his-1922-classic/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Consent of the governed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consent-of-the-governed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32b/tim-wu-7845_consent-of-the-gover_what-lippmann-took-from-the-war-as-he-ex_2692295.jpg) > [“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/when-we-speak-of-living-environments-and-their-effects-on-us-then-we/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Environments](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/environments/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77b/tim-wu-7845_environments_when-we-speak-of-living-environments-and_121936.jpg) > [“Technology always embodies ideology, and the ideology in question was one of difference, recognition, and individuality. But commerce bows to none, taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/technology-always-embodies-ideology-and-the-ideology-in-question-was/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d5/tim-wu-7845_business_technology-always-embodies-ideology-and_2560589.jpg) > [“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/just-what-is-google-in-1902-the-new-york-telephone-company-opened-the/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Good health](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-health/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be5/tim-wu-7845_good-health_just-what-is-google-in-1902-the-new-york_114662.png) > [Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wu/google-s-adwords-they-allow-you-to-bid-on-words-that-people-will-type/) [Tim Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/) [Ads](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ads/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75f/tim-wu-7845_ads_google-s-adwords-they-allow-you-to-bid-o_1337851.png) ## Tim Wu by topic [Knows (22)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/tim-wu/) [Internet (20)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/tim-wu/) [Thinking (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/tim-wu/) [People (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/tim-wu/) [Advertising (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advertising/tim-wu/) [Google (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/google/tim-wu/) [Way (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/tim-wu/) [Ads (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ads/tim-wu/) [Kind (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/tim-wu/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wu/#itemlist", "name": "Tim Wu Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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