"Food for thought"

"Smile. It enhances your face value.”
- Dolly Parton, 'Steel Magnolias' (1989)

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"Travel is about more than sightseeing and consuming, it's about connections and community."
  - Jonathan Mildenhall, Airbnb

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"Context is more important today than ever before. Just because you can Google it doesn't mean you have context for anything."
  - John C Jay

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"Google searches us."
 -- Nicholas Carr

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"Key to economic prosperity is the organised creation of dissatisfaction…If everyone were satisfied no one would want to buy the new thing.”

-- Charles F. Kettering in “Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied”

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"The Facebook feed is a bit like a sausage. Everyone eats it, even though nobody knows how it is made."
 - Cesar A. Hidalgo

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"Google users now conduct more than 115 billion searches a month, creating personal search histories that determine the customized ads that Google’s algorithms serve them. As a result, Google’s ad revenues now surpass those of all U.S. print publications combined."
  - BCG Perspectives, May 2014

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“For millennial customers it’s beyond comprehension that’s there’s something available in a physical store that’s not available online. They just don’t get it. It’s like an artist who releases an album but they cannot download it from iTunes.”
- José Neves, founder of Farfetch

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"Brands have two rules - persuading outsiders to buy and persuading insiders to believe."
 -- Wally Olins

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"Bouquets of hashtags are the modern way to express grief."
-- The Sunday Times on Peaches Geldof

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“People shop online to realize ambitions conceived in the off-line world.”
- Wally Olins

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"Marketing goals are, in a word, romantic. (...) If we crave loyalty, marketers put on a loyalty program. To reposition a brand, they say, “For young people.” To appear proactive, they intone, “Added values.”. Who sets these improbable objectives? Marketers do."
 -- Andrew Ehrenberg

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"Facebook will become the phone directory for the planet. Young users will to go to Facebook as the place where they communicate with their families, and as the site where they search for someone. Then users will move that relationship to a smaller online community, such as a microblog." - Jeffrey I. Cole

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"Businesses have only two options today: they can either compete with others or they can create with them." - Magnus Lindkvist

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“[Facebook and Twitter] aren’t the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.”
- Jason Fried, "Why work doesn't happen at work"

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"Facebook isn't cool, and it's not electricity either."
-- Alex Kantrowitz, Forbes

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"Children will be creators, not just users, of technology. They will remix and code the games they want to play, make platforms for kids like them and share their creations with the world. Every child will see the world through the lens of creation, not through the lens of consumption."
 -- Zach Sims

"Families made us human"

"The evolution of human culture can be explained, not by the size of our brains, but by the quality of our relationships."

via aeon magazine

"The Innovation of Loneliness"

The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo.

"Food for thought"

"I should mention that there are two sorts of clients: those who are already big and rich and those who would dearly love to be big and rich. Those who are already rich, will, on the whole, put out duller advertising than those who merely want to be rich or richer."
  -- Howard Gossage, "Roughly, Is There Any Hope for Advertising?", 1967