Vannevar Bush:

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Tim Maly:

We are beset by wicked problems exacerbated by networks of sublime scale that have been built on top of millenia of injustice chaotically interacting with good works and hope.

Rebecca Greenfield:

What happened? Money and technology, but mostly money.

Markus Persson:

It's not about the money. It's about my sanity.

David Cole:

Today, fully half of all members of Congress become lobbyists upon leaving office. Members of Congress spend 30–70 percent of their time raising money for their next campaign.

The challenge posed by lobbying is a microcosm of the larger problem that the free flow of money presents in a democracy.

Michael Lewis:

To succeed in this environment you must believe, or at least pretend to believe, that you are an expert in matters where no expertise is possible. I'm not sure it's any easier to be a total fraud on Wall Street than in any other occupation, but on Wall Street you will be paid a lot more to forget your uneasy feelings.

David Clark:

Don't forget about forgetting.