Quotes by : Derek Thompson

It is tempting to say, as my friend suggested, that these online identities are caricatures of the real....

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what....

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something....

The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient....

Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing....

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.....

Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are....

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they....