“Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.”

— Luis Buñuel

Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)

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film director 1900–1983

Leon Bertoletti (1971)

Freedom and the Press http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/10/freedom-and-press.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 3/10/2009

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”

Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Collected Works, Vol. 32, pp. 504–9.
Collected Works
Source: Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin

“My spirit will rise from the grave and the world shall know that I was right.”

Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986

Remark made days before passing in Honolulu (September 1989)
1965

“Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own.”

Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web

Weaving the Web (1999)
Context: At CERN there was a credo meant to avoid unnecessary labors, it said that when acquiring new technology: Buy, Don't Build. There were several commercial hypertext editors and I thought we could just add some internet code, so that the hypertext documents could then be sent over the internet. I thought the companies engaged in the then fringe field of hypertext would immediately grasp the possibilities of the web. Unfortunately, their reaction was quite the opposite... it seemed that explaining the vision of the web was exceedingly difficult without a web browser in hand, people had to be able to grasp the web in full, which meant imagining a whole world populated with websites and browsers. It was a lot to ask. Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own.