Sharon Waxman:

You've got to be in the game, and to be in the game, you gotta be first.

Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify:

The question of when we'll be profitable actually feels irrelevant. Our focus is all on growth. That is priority one, two, three, four and five.

Dave Murrell, who calls himself Fyrare:

If you're not padding your numbers, you're not doing it right. It's part of the game.

Rattle:

I think Decius and I should start practice claiming that MemeStreams is worth four billion while keeping a straight face.

Gregory Aharonian:

The general rule is, the more patents a company has, the more closely the quality of their patent portfolio approaches the quality of all patents, which is to say the majority of all of these patents are invalid.

Pierce Gleeson:

Twitter had created a system that demanded the attention of intelligent people, individuals capable of assuming the entire false persona of a global brand without lapses, but there was no reward for that attention. It was a responsibility, not an opportunity.

Alexis Madrigal:

Of course, the metabot does not want to create a single fake account that looks human. It wants to create tens of thousands of fake accounts that look sort of human. And it knows it should not overwhelm one user with 10,000 fake followers (though that's what happened). Rather, the bots should be spread out among many people, so that no one gets suspicious that thousands of porny spambots are following them.

Joseph Lawler:

State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook "likes," ... the agency's inspector general says.

Despite the surge in likes, the IG said the effort failed to reach the bureau's target audience, which is largely older and more influential than the people liking its pages.