Economic growth Quote by Rutger Bregman

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

— Jeff Hammerbacher

“Instead, by creating associations that exist out in the broader culture—not just in our own heads, but in the heads of third parties—ads turn…

— Kevin Simler

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more…

— Chris Hardwick

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

— Chris Hardwick

The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and…

— Chris Hardwick

When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with…

— Chris Hardwick

“I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves…

— Joseph Conrad

“The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep.…

— Timothy Ferriss

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

— Chris Hardwick

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which…

— Virginia Postrel

“Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot…

— Luke Sullivan