“Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel.”— Laurel Wamsley, npr.org
“It tried to make games the Amazon way, instead of making games players want to play.”— Jason Schreir, Priya Anand, bloomberg.com
“What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.”— Franklin Foer, theatlantic.com
“Amazon announced last week it wanted to hire 30,000 employees and a whopping 208,000 people applied...”— Brandi Kellam, CBS News, cbsnews.com
“If you're generous enough to share your Amazon Prime password with loved ones or simply shop from a shared computer, there’s always a chance that someone could stumble upon your recent activity. And sometimes, you’d rather no one else know your business.”— Casey Bond, huffpost.com
“Of course Alexa knows all the things you ask it — but that's only the beginning.”— Ina Fried, axios.com
“In an unprecedented move at Amazon, more than 3,500 of the company’s corporate employees signed their names to a letter published on Wednesday that urged Jeff Bezos to create a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company.”— Jason Del Rey, recode.net
“Critics say the companies are monetizing our attention, mishandling our data and profiting from our children. They've concentrated too much economic power. They're shaping our society in ways we don't fully understand yet.”— Lulu Garcia-Navarro, npr.org
“Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, twitter.com
“Amazon said Thursday it was bailing on locating its new campus in Queens.”— Bob Fredericks, nypost.com
“The express arrival of any object missing from your life with a minimum of effort could make it increasingly possible to live as though you already own everything”— Chenoe hart, reallifemag.com
“Sanchez is a noted President Trump supporter, and a friend of Roger Stone. Trump is, of course, notoriously opposed to the Washington Post, which Bezos owns.”— Ella Cerón, thecut.com
“Perhaps being a victim of privacy invasion will help Jeff Bezos realize the evils of what his company is enabling.”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.com
“A couple of years ago, I went to Brazil on a journalistic assignment, which I thought was fantastic. I went on a boat up to the Amazon to villages off little tributaries. We were taking justice to the communities, so we'd sleep in hammocks on the boat, get off, do some justice, and party through the…”— Clive Anderson, independent.co.uk
“The tone of voice that we use in a growing percentage of our daily interactions matters - not for Alexa, not for Amazon, not for Apple, but for us.”— Rachel Withers, slate.com
“Fake news, racism, sexism, terrorists spreading messages of hate, toxic content directed at children — parts of the Internet we have ended up with is a million miles from where we thought it would take us. It is in the digital media industry's interest to listen and act on this.”— Keith Weed, washingtonpost.com