Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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Sigmund Freud
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
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Bill Gaede
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
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Bill Gaede
Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).
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Bill Gaede
It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Derek Thompson
Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.
This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.
Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.
It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens a door into a feeling of comfort, meaning, or familiarity. It is called an aesthetic aha.
Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person’s home, but it is my face that I see in the reflection.
