“Epstein came up with an elaborate plan, including TV ads, and presented it to the board. The board rejected it.“It really came down to this,” McCaffrey later said. “We have a limited budget. Do we want to put that money into the technology, into the infrastructure, into hiring really great people? Or do we want to blow it on a marketing campaign that we can’t measure?” Larry and Sergey told Epstein that his interim stint was over”
“And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?”
“I was in a department store and the clerk came up to me and said "do you want to lay on the couch' I said "Where's your clip board?”
“What do I want? I want lots of things, just like everybody else. Problem is, we can’t really have what we want, can we?”
“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”