14 Quotes by Nick Bilton

If there is no X to mark the spot, there is no spot.

You type lines of code into a computer, and out comes a world that didn’t exist before. There are no laws here except your laws. You decide who is given power and who is not. And then you wake up one morning and you’re not you anymore. You’re one of the most notorious drug dealers alive. And now you’re deciding if someone should live or die. You’re the judge in your own court. You’re god.

A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.” This is it, he thought. “Agitation or excitement; flutter.” A verb. Twitter.

Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it.

Even though all these people were dealing in illicit activities, they each had a moral sense that their particular outlawed product was more just than another.