Quote by Steven Johnson

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good…

— Martin Cooper

If you look at the antitrust lawsuit against IBM, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, each of those ended up…

— Lina Khan

“So assuming one could argue that Google is a monopoly and needs to enter into a consent decree, would the Bell Labs model work?…

— Jonathan Taplin

“In a sense, Silicon Valley was born out of Shockley's betrayal of Bell Labs' ethics.”

— Arun Rao

Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits.

— Lina Khan

There are probably deal-makers out there who wish we didn't have the antitrust laws.

— Lina Khan

Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.

— Marvin Ammori

“In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.”

— William Poundstone

“(sometimes it makes sense to buy a competitor in order to shut it down) as a way to boost industry prices.”

— Victor Cheng

No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through…

— Henry Chesbrough

Existing antitrust law in the United States addresses mainly the harm from price gouging, not the other kinds of harm caused by these platforms,…

— Paul Romer

“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said, secondary factors…

— Venkatesh Narayanamurti