"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."“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.”"Brands have two rules - persuading outsiders to buy and persuading insiders to believe.""Bouquets of hashtags are the modern way to express grief."“People shop online to realize ambitions conceived in the off-line world.”"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.""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"Businesses have only two options today: they can either compete with others or they can create with them."
- Magnus Lindkvist
“[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.”"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."
"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.""No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.” - Karl Popper
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler
"There is no such thing as invention. Just environments where people can make discoveries."“If you lose money for the firm I will be understanding. If you lose reputation I will be ruthless.” - Warren Buffet
