Disney vs. Everybody, Facebook’s Shadiness, Snapchat’s Comeback, and the Future of Tech With Kara Swisher | The Bill Simmons Podcast

These phones are actually addictive. I know television is addictive but you're a six-foot distance from it. In this case, a phone is right next to you, it's constantly pinging you, and it's got all the elements of a slot machine... all the elements of gambling or drug use.

If we did a fantasy draft of things that we should just eliminate and the world would be better, I think Twitter might be my number one choice

I used have this thing when I started off in reporting... I would always ask myself, 'What are people lying to me about?' That was always my criteria. And then I realized quickly the right question to ask was, 'What are people lying to themselves about?'

When something goes wrong in an autonomous vehicle, a million other cars learn that mistake. When something goes wrong with me in a car accident, I learn... and maybe not. I might do it six times again.

I think Facebook has turned into a place for people 40 and over

Arguing whether immigration is good is astonishing... Of course it is.

Nobody's going to own a car someday

We're at the lowest point of startup startup creation in a long, long time... I think 30 years now

Disney's the most powerful content company probably of all time now... It's not Netflix vs. everybody, it's Disney vs. everybody.

The signs of an innovative society are tolerance, openness, and immigration... Every society that's been innovated over the course of history all have the same hallmarks of how they got that way.

What happens in tech a lot is some people try things and then it doesn't work in one place and then it suddenly work somewhere else

I really hate Facebook. I really do. I think they're just full of shit.