“It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.”
― Tim Wu
“It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.”
― Tim Wu
“When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.”
― Tim Wu
“In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.”
― Tim Wu
“Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is.”
― Tim Wu
“Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used.”
― Tim Wu
"Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion."
― Tim Wu
"Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone."
― Tim Wu
"The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire."
― Tim Wu