Diana Saverin:

After graduation, the idea of moving to a city and getting an office job scared me much more than, say, bears. I could see the days soaring by there: a fluorescent-lit routine repeating itself for years.

Ken Auletta:

Larry Page suffered from Sergey Brin envy. Page had turned into what he had always admonished Googlers not to become: a bureaucrat. He was comfortable, and that made him uncomfortable.

William Deresiewicz:

We're all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base. We're all selling something today, because even if we aren't literally selling something (though thanks to the Internet as well as the entrepreneurial ideal, more and more of us are), we're always selling ourselves.

Andrew Hill:

If this is revolutionary, it may be the most tedious revolution yet.