Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.
Imagine Pepsi without Coke. Impossible, right?
Branding is not about what something says or what it means, but how it makes us feel.
Products are produced in the factory; brands are produced in our minds.
Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.
We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.
Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.
I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.
We try to bargain with God. . . I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer. . . We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.