The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

- Tim Wu

In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were on the page…

- Tim Wu

I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so therefore, not only Google, but Google, Faceb…

- Tim Wu

History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick …

- Tim Wu

I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the develop…

- Tim Wu

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

- Tim Wu

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

- 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 wa…

- Tim Wu

Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where th…

- Tim Wu