# Citations | Citation | Auteur | Theme | |---|---|---| | Suspense doesn't come from having a bomb thrown from nowhere at the hero. Suspense comes from having two people sitting, talking at the table. There is a bomb ticking underneath the table. And the audience sees it but the characters don't. And that's what suspense is. | Alfred Hitchcock (via Donna Tartt) | Storytelling | | Competition is for losers. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business. | Peter Thiel — *Zero to One*, 2014 | Monopoles, Startups | | Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. | Cory Doctorow — *Pluralistic*, 21 janvier 2023 | Enshittification, Plateformes | | People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. | Adam Smith — *The Wealth of Nations*, 1776, Livre I, Chap. X | Monopoles, Économie | | With software, there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. | Richard Stallman | Souveraineté, Open Source | | Already today, billions of people trust the Facebook algorithm to tell us what is new, the Google algorithm tells us what is true, Netflix tells us what to watch, and the Amazon and Alibaba algorithms tell us what to buy. | Yuval Noah Harari — Davos, janvier 2020 | Algorithmes, Dépendance | | The spirit there was very decentralized. The individual was incredibly empowered. It was all based on there being no central authority that you had to go to to ask permission. | Tim Berners-Lee — *Vanity Fair*, 2018 | Web, Décentralisation | | Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. | Shoshana Zuboff — *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism*, 2019, p.8 | Surveillance, Données | | Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. | Bruce Schneier — SOURCE Boston, avril 2014 | Surveillance, Internet | | Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. | Edward Snowden — Reddit AMA, 21 mai 2015 | Privacy, Liberté |