"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, â€œa little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one."

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Source : Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd

Tim Wu

#Breakup Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Political Quotes

“How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.”
“My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.”
“When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.310, Algonquin Books
“Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.”
“Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.”

Source : Interview with Rewa Zeinati, www.sukoonmag.com. December 17, 2015.
“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”
“I'm not as much a fan of fashion as I used to be.”
“I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate.”

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