Quotes About Influence

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They are programming people," Harris says. "There's always this narrative that technology's neutral. And it's up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true—" "Technology is not neutral?" Cooper interrupts. "It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World," he argued in his 1993 book on the topic. "It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

But part of what makes social media insidious is that the companies that profit from your attention have succeeded with a masterful marketing coup: convincing our culture that if you don't use their products you might miss out.

we were pushed into it by the high-end device companies and attention economy conglomerates who discovered there are vast fortunes to be made in a culture dominated by gadgets and apps.

Recently, however, he became worried about the example he was setting for his nine- and thirteen-year-old kids. He could talk to them about the importance of experiencing life beyond a glowing screen, he realized, but the message wouldn't stick until they saw him demonstrating this behavior in his own life. So he did something radical: he got rid of his smartphone and replaced it with a basic flip phone.

Sizin zaman?n?z ve dikkatiniz üzerinden kâr elde eden ?irketler, ustaca kulland?klar? bir pazarlama hilesi sayesinde bugün herkesi ?una inand?rm?? vaziyetteler: Sosyal medyada yer almad???n?zda mutlaka bir ?eyleri kaç?r?r, bir ?eylerden mahrum kal?rs?n?z.

novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a piece for the Guardian calling Twitter a "coercive development" in the literary world,

It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

It's safer to comment on our culture than to step into the Rooseveltian ring and attempt to wrestle it into something better.

Bugün sürdürmekte oldu?umuz dijital hayatlar? kendimiz seçmedik. Daha ziyade, bir avuç teknoloji yat?r?mc?s?n?n ç?karlar?na hizmet etmek üzere ?irketlerin toplant? odalar?nda tasarlanm?? bir ya?am tarz? bu.

Others, such as Alan Lightman, or Erez Lieberman, who earned fame by the age of thirty-one through his combination of mathematics and cultural studies, or Esther Duflo, who won a MacArthur "Genius Grant" for her work evaluating anti-poverty programs, didn't make the cut for the book, but still weigh heavily on my thinking about how to best shape my own career. It

Wu, bir konu?mas?nda Day'den ?öyle bahsediyordu: 'Etraf?na bir kalabal?k topla ama onun paras?yla ilgilenme, çünkü bu kalabal???, onun dikkatini isteyen birine yeniden satabilirsin' fikrini gerçekten hayata geçiren ilk insand?.

belief in what he called "context": the theory that every man's actions are to a very decisive extent influenced by his early experiences, and that no man's behavior can be analyzed or affected without knowledge of those experiences.

There are certain things a man cannot control.

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

One with the law is a majority.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.