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Top 25 Tim Wu Quotes (2025 Update)

Tim Wu Quote: “As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”

1. “As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”

Tim Wu Quote: “The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

2. “The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

Tim Wu Quote: “The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.”

3. “The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.”

Tim Wu Quote: “BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.”

4. “BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.”

Tim Wu Quote: “It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life’s immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.”

5. “It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life’s immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.”

Tim Wu Quote: “History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.”

6. “History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.”

Tim Wu Quote: “In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.”

7. “In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.”

Tim Wu Quote: “The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.”

8. “The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.”

Tim Wu Quote: “We’re going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.”

9. “We’re going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.”

Tim Wu Quote: “Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used. Consider.”

10. “Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used. Consider.”

Tim Wu Quote: “As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.”

11. “As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.”

Tim Wu Quote: “Nothing, save the hangman’s noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”

12. “Nothing, save the hangman’s noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”

Tim Wu Quote: “When an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.”

13. “When an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.”

Tim Wu Quote: “For how we spend the brutally limited resource of our attention will determine those lives to a degree most of us may prefer not to think about. As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine. The.”

14. “For how we spend the brutally limited resource of our attention will determine those lives to a degree most of us may prefer not to think about. As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine. The.”

Tim Wu Quote: “Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.”

15. “Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.”

Tim Wu Quote: “Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is.”

16. “Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is.”

Tim Wu Quote: “When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly – of the city, the countryside, and so on. Our most immediate environment is actually formed by what holds our attention from moment to moment, whether having received or taken it. As William James once put it, “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”

17. “When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly – of the city, the countryside, and so on. Our most immediate environment is actually formed by what holds our attention from moment to moment, whether having received or taken it. As William James once put it, “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”

Tim Wu Quote: “Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.”

18. “Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.”

Tim Wu Quote: “The Church was the one institution whose mission depended on galvanizing attention; and through its daily and weekly offices, as well as its sometimes central role in education, that is exactly what it managed to do. At the dawn of the attention industries, then, religion was still, in a very real sense, the incumbent operation, the only large-scale human endeavor designed to capture attention and use it.”

19. “The Church was the one institution whose mission depended on galvanizing attention; and through its daily and weekly offices, as well as its sometimes central role in education, that is exactly what it managed to do. At the dawn of the attention industries, then, religion was still, in a very real sense, the incumbent operation, the only large-scale human endeavor designed to capture attention and use it.”

Tim Wu Quote: “For all our secular rationalism and technological advances, potential for surrender to the charms of magical thinking remains embedded in the human psyche, awaiting only the advertiser to awaken it.”

20. “For all our secular rationalism and technological advances, potential for surrender to the charms of magical thinking remains embedded in the human psyche, awaiting only the advertiser to awaken it.”

Tim Wu Quote: “It is shocking how little it has been necessary to defend the sheer reach of the attention merchant into the entirety of our lived experience. Formerly the state of technology imposed its own limits, but at a time when these limits have been effectively eliminated, it is for us to ask some fundamental questions: Do we draw any lines between the private and the commercial? If so, what times and spaces should we consider as too valuable, personal, or sacrosanct for the usual onslaught?”

21. “It is shocking how little it has been necessary to defend the sheer reach of the attention merchant into the entirety of our lived experience. Formerly the state of technology imposed its own limits, but at a time when these limits have been effectively eliminated, it is for us to ask some fundamental questions: Do we draw any lines between the private and the commercial? If so, what times and spaces should we consider as too valuable, personal, or sacrosanct for the usual onslaught?”

Tim Wu Quote: “The only communications truly without influence are those that one learns to ignore or never hears at all; this is why Jacques Ellul argued that it is only the disconnected – rural dwellers or the urban poor – who are truly immune to propaganda, while intellectuals, who read everything, insist on having opinions, and think themselves immune to propaganda are, in fact, easy to manipulate.”

22. “The only communications truly without influence are those that one learns to ignore or never hears at all; this is why Jacques Ellul argued that it is only the disconnected – rural dwellers or the urban poor – who are truly immune to propaganda, while intellectuals, who read everything, insist on having opinions, and think themselves immune to propaganda are, in fact, easy to manipulate.”

Tim Wu Quote: “Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they ″nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.”

23. “Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they ″nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.”

Tim Wu Quote: “We can usefully think of the mass-produced poster as an early screen – though a static version, to be sure – the phenomenon now so ubiquitous in our lives. The.”

24. “We can usefully think of the mass-produced poster as an early screen – though a static version, to be sure – the phenomenon now so ubiquitous in our lives. The.”

Tim Wu Quote: “It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West – one captured by the phrase ″homo distractus,″ a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.”

25. “It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West – one captured by the phrase ″homo distractus,″ a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.”

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