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

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

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

The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.

Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Be blessed.

None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon