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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person."

People Ideas Decision
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since."

Thinking Ideas Car
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"I think that's been really the key, the idea of trying to harness social capital for selling purposes. That we've let this happen so easily without clearly getting something in exchange is kind of amazing to me."

Thinking Ideas Keys
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't like it when it's used to sort of exploit your weaknesses or make you lose control in some ways."

People Ideas Weakness
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television. And it was this idea of email and chat rooms and this kind of stuff that first people - got people there."

People Thinking Ideas
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one."

Ideas Political Breakup
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Ideas

"Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads."

Long Ideas Being Free
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Toby Young Journalist
Ideas

"I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous."

Ideas New York Wine
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
Ideas

"I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me."

Ideas Names Pride
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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
Ideas

"I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea."

Ideas Motivation Reflection
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Tom Green Comedian, Actor, Writer
Ideas

"I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something."

Writing Ideas Talking
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Ideas

"Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air."

Writing Ideas Air
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Ideas

"In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded."

Ideas Might Virginia
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Ideas

"And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?"

Thinking Ideas Mind
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Ideas

"I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end."

Mean Book Ideas
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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
Ideas

"If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out."

Ideas Growth Increase
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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
Ideas

"Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve."

Believe Ideas Motivational
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