39 Quotes by Tim Wu

programs are scheduled interruptions of marketing bulletins.

BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.

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

History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

We’re going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Nothing, save the hangman’s noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

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.