Quotes About Personalization

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

Underline in your books, jot notes in the margins, and turn the corners of your pages down. Public education is a beautiful dream, but public classrooms too often train students not to mark, write in, disfigure, or in any way make books permanently their own. You're a grownup now, so buy your own books if you possibly can. In my opinion, a cheap paperback filled with your own notes is worth five times as much as a beautiful collector's edition.

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.

When I sing, I try to make the song my own and sing it my way because, in my mind, I am not following any school of thought. I just make myself free.

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.

Nuestra creciente riqueza nos ha permitido dejar de ser cazadores de gangas que adquieren productos de marca (o incluso sin marca), para convertirnos en miniexpertos y permitirnos miles de pequeños caprichos que nos distinguen de los demás. Adoptamos una serie de nuevas conductas de compra que se describen con palabras de significado opuesto, como «personalización en serie», «exclusividad masiva». Todas van en la misma dirección: más largas colas.

So everything is an algorithm now. And just as every Google search uses its algorithms to produce a different result for each person searching, so can algorithms customize products for their consumers. For

Commodity information (everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information (you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be expensive.

Sin embargo, ofrecer simplemente más variedad no cambia la demanda. Hay que ayudar a los consumidores a encontrar los nichos que se adaptan a sus necesidades e intereses particulares.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

I am always personalizing tees to fit my personality, cutting off rocker shirts, debunking the mold of what traditional 'work wear' means, and always wearing my cause.

Health isn't only what was genetically given to you; it's also about your environment and what you do on a day-to-day basis. The more we understand that, the more we can personalize it, and really, it requires us to have more and more data about the individual.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

We are still at the early stages in how and what we filter. These powerful computational technologies can be—and will be—applied to the internet of everything. The most trivial product or service could be personalized if we wanted it (but many times we won't). In the next 30 years the entire cloud will be filtered, elevating the degree of personalization. Yet

The funny thing about a whole class of technology that enhances experience and personalization is that it puts great pressure on us to know who we are.

The fears that technology makes us more uniform, more commoditized are incorrect. The more we are personalized, the easier it is for the filters because we become distinct, an actualized distinction they can reckon with.

Greater personalization requires greater transparency. Absolute personalization (vanity) requires absolute transparency (no privacy). If I prefer to remain private and opaque to potential friends and institutions, then I must accept I will be treated generically, without regard to my specific particulars. I'll be an average number.

There is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter.