42 Quotes by Derek Thompson

But our desks were never meant to be our altars.

The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it open.

Everybody just stepped it up another notch. We all came together in that tournament. We got used to playing with each other and got the chemistry going.

It's to give truth to history rather than ignore it, deny it or rationalize it. Somebody died and that somebody was an aboriginal person and that aboriginal person was a child.

It's going to be fun. It's going to be real intense. Everybody's going to be really hyped up. I'm looking forward to it.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable – MAYA.

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.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” In.

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.