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Total quotes: 2

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Tim Wu

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Birthplace: Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States

Educated At: McGill University, Harvard Law School

Political Parties: Democratic Party

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Enemy Of The State

Total quotes: 2

“Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit thrill of Freud’s unconscious sexual desires or the mathematical elegance of the economist’s incentives. Convenience is boring. But boring is not the same thing as trivial.”

— Tim Wu, Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience

Tagged: convenience, Technology

“Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper. After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undignified. To resist convenience — not to own a cellphone, not to use Google — has come to require a special kind of dedication that is often taken for eccentricity, if not fanaticism.”

— Tim Wu, Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience

Tagged: convenience, Technology

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