“In Silicon Valley, the information that wants to be free is almost always the information that belongs to someone else.”Tagged: Free Information, Silicon Valley
“To Google, Auletta's book is just a series of ones and zeros—and not very many of them, compared with a movie. To Auletta, those ones and zeros were exceptionally expensive to create—at least in terms of time—since the technology that has revolutionized the cost of distributing text hasn't…”Tagged: Data, Information Economics
“The real conflict online is between the media companies that fund much of the entertainment we read, see, and hear and the technology firms that want to distribute their content—legally or otherwise.”Tagged: Book Publishing, Media Companies, Privacy
“Nick Denton's position on privacy is basically no social media at my wedding but cameras in other people's bedrooms are fine. Jury disagreed.”Tagged: Denton’s Strange Realtionship With Transparency
“When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I…”Tagged: pirates, Adversary, Enemy, criminal, monster
“Vane: Eleanor, your father sells my cargo. Whatever it is you're so upset about, I doubt he feels the same. Eleanor: When I tell him you put our biggest earner out of business, he'll— Vane: Remind you that Flint hasn't been your biggest earner in quite some time. You'll also be reminded of what…”Tagged: Love, Challenge, Threat, Warning, Business
“Me, I can't help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It's a sickness. Truly.”Tagged: sickness, Opportunity, Opportunistic, Yearning
“You steal cargo at the end of a sword. We sell that cargo to markets that will never have you. When you are strong, you are a necessary evil. When you are not strong, you are likely soon to be dead. But what you are not ever is a sound investment.”Tagged: steal, Strong, Evil, dead, Investment
“Flint: I'm gonna go and see Richard. He can help me recreate the schedule. Gates: Richard Guthrie? Flint: Mm-hmm. Gates: You think he's gonna help you? Flint: Yes. Yes, I do. Gates: Let's just for fun say that he doesn't. What then? Flint: Then I'll forget about the schedule and go back to hunting…”Tagged: lying, schedule, Hunting, Cheeky, Pretend
“Be honest. Are you as surprised as I am that I'm the only one here behaving myself?”Tagged: behave, joke, Cheeky, Honesty, surprise
“I was at every tavern in that town trying to find us spies, build out this thing we started. And every time I said my name, they knew my name. The first thing they said every time was your name. Like we was two halves of the same thing. I can't be your wife, Jack. But you and I are gonna be partners…”Tagged: Partners, Marriage, Love, soulmates, Halves
“I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason, could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.”Tagged: Regret, Reconciliation, monster, enemies, Hate
“All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.”Tagged: History, Stories, monsters, Distorted, Narrative
“This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove…”Tagged: wise, dark, Shadows, Light, Lies
“A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.”Tagged: Story, History, survive, Myth, Progress