{"quotes":[{"text":"Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["art","bomb","heartbreak","heartbroken","mastery","power","procreation","responsibility","restraight","seduction","viral","wield"],"id":11314,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["creation","creative","new","viral"],"id":13581,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is driven by the size of the largest broadcast. Digital blockbusters are not about a million one-to-one moments as much as they are about a few one-to-one-million moments.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["derek-thompson","digital-marketing","marketing","popularity","viral"],"id":26224,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["creative","creativity","derek-thompson","dogged","viral"],"id":73376,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"That's how we should celebrate all birthdays... With an ass-kicking.","author":"Mord McGhee","tags":["cyberpunk","rigs","science-fiction","scifi","viral"],"id":88163,"author_id":"Mord+McGhee"},{"text":"Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over,love being the new black,and compassion going viral.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["compassion","going-viral","love","new-black","peace","rumor","trend","viral"],"id":156962,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["creativity","derek-thompson","hit","popularity","quality","success","viral"],"id":168448,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"Love is a viral vibration, infect others with it without regard, that it may spread epidemically, boosting the immunity of a humanity that could deafen the sound of hate, only the diseased soul makes.","author":"Tracey Bond","tags":["deafen","diseased","epidemically","hate","humanity","immunity","infect","love","spread","viral"],"id":198096,"author_id":"Tracey+Bond"},{"text":"One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accountability","apologetics","common-sense","control","criticism","deceit","demonization","discernment","gossip","harness","harness-your-power","honesty","hypocrisy","judging","judgment","libel","lies","love","mistakes","opinions","preaching","prejudgment","propaganda","righteous-judgment","righteousness","sense","sincerity","skill","slander","teaching","theory","understanding","verification","viral","viral-ideas"],"id":237513,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, 'My lady garden is going viral.' In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.","author":"Jenny Lawson","tags":["euphemism","garden","hindsight","humor","lady","lady-garden","parents","phrasing","proud","viral"],"id":307318,"author_id":"Jenny+Lawson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}