“In democracies, we aren't always governed by the people or the parties...” — Reid Hoffman Quote

“In democracies, we aren't always governed by the people or the parties that we voted for. But when officials are elected, we must respect their authority, as long as they're exercising that authority within the bounds of whatever regulatory frameworks are in place to guide them.”

“Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.”

“Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.”

“If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.”

“Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.”

“Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.”