“What’s both crucial and easy to miss about TikTok is how it has stepped over the midpoint between the familiar self-directed feed and an experience based first on algorithmic observation and inference. The most obvious clue is right there when you open the app: the first thing you see isn’t a feed o…”— John Herrman, nytimes.com
“Everywhere you look, it seems like cowboy hats and boots are back with a vengeance.”— Sandra song, papermag.com
“Just like a city shapes the lives of its inhabitants, software shapes the lives of it users. Therefore software is a domain of great responsibility.”— Tristan Harris, tristanharris.com
“You’ve read the story of ‘Jesse James’, Of how he lived and died. If you’re still in need Of something to read, Here’s the story of ‘Bonnie and Clyde. Some day they’ll go down together they’ll bury them side by side to few it’ll be grief to the law a relief but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.”— Bonnie Parker, theguardian.com
“Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it’s aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience.”— Farhad Manjoo, nytimes.com
“The drunken poet... isn’t merely drunk in the way a lawyer might be drunk, or an orthopedic surgeon, or even just a sad, anxious person. No, the poet has made a sacrifice. He is drunk for art.”— David Orr, nytimes.com
“My greatest design tool personally is to look at what that genre is doing and make it 3–5% different. It’s in a way, trolling.”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“I love counterfeits, it’s the best feedback. It’s better than a great review in Vogue. If it’s working to a point where someone else can profit […] it’s really working.”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“I hate stores. Stores are corny. It’s a fact. Who wants to be sold anything?”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“It’s easier to be a critic than to produce work. So the only way to get to the end means is to start the domino effect. Which is essentially put out bad work.”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org