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....

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos....

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

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many....

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

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something....

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid....

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