Lizzie Widdecombe:

Apple makes more than two million dollars in revenue per employee each year.

Evgeny Morozov:

As citizens in an era of Datafeed, we still haven't figured out how to manage our way to happiness. But there's a lot of money to be made in selling us the dials.

Robert Pogue Harrison:

With a few exceptions, our new tech armies rarely take the time to think through what they are doing. Or if they do, they tend to think in ways that only add to the turmoil and agitation.

Elizabeth Buchanan:

But just because we can do this with the data, should we?

Noam Scheiber:

Every successful startup is in some sense a confidence game.

Michael Lewis:

Much of what Wall Street sells is less like engineering than like a forecasting service for a coin-flipping contest -- except that no one mistakes a coin-flipping contest for a game of skill.

Matt Levine:

Banks are magic, and if you look too hard at how the magic happens, you might stop believing in it.

Jerry Seinfeld:

I love advertising, because I love lying. In advertising, everything is the way you wish it was. I don't care that it won't be like that when I actually get the product being advertised, because, in between seeing the commercial and owning the thing, I'm happy, and that's all I want.

Taylor Swift:

People are still buying albums, but now they're ... buying only the ones that hit them like an arrow through the heart or have made them feel strong or allowed them to feel like they really aren't alone in feeling so alone.