Adam Lashinsky : (6) " Americans fear losing control if they’re forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that. " - Adam Lashinsky " Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft’s growth – if not its profit engine – stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too. " - Adam Lashinsky " If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then one industry’s potential failure is another’s opportunity. " - Adam Lashinsky " Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money. " - Adam Lashinsky " For years now, we’ve been hearing about how China is the great copycat nation, the manufacturer of designs drawn up in other countries, and then an imitator for its own products. That’s been true, as the developing country followed a path that Japan and then Korea plowed before it. " - Adam Lashinsky " When I published a book earlier this year about Uber, the most common question I got about it was how many of the tumultuous events of 2017 I was able to include. My gag-line response: I managed to cover the first 17 scandals of the year, but not Nos. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and so on. " - Adam Lashinsky