“Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the pr...” — Nick Harkaway Quote

“Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.”

“We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales.”

“My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.”

“E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-formatted, typographically impoverished rendering of a paper book. That's not the electronic book I want. I want a gorgeous physical object, with paper pages, that can transform into any story I choose, perfectly presented on the page.”

“My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.”

“The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.”

“I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.”

“It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.”

“Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.”

“I understand that a corporation needs to make money, but this was never business to me. My music was always so heartfelt and deeply personal.”

“I'm genuine! I've not got some dark, shadowy corporation behind me pulling the strings.”