“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”
Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Malcolm Gladwell70
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“The idea had spread like wildfire …. like a moral plague, as one critic of the time had put it.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
Source: A Gift From Earth (1968), Ch. 7 : The Bleeding Heart
Context: There were organ banks all over the world, inadequately supplied by people kind enough to will their bodies to medical science.
How useful is the body of a man who dies of old age? How fast can you reach a car accident? And in 2043, Arkansas, which had never rescinded the death penalty, made the organ banks the official state method of execution.
The idea had spread like wildfire.... like a moral plague, as one critic of the time had put it.
“The levers of power have been tipping toward the public, thanks to social media.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
“TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.”
Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVI, p. 188
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Part 1: "From Rockaway to MIT", "String Beans", p. 25
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
“Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.”
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938) United States federal judge
Woolford Realty Co., Inc., v. Rose, 286 U.S. 319, 330 (1932)
Judicial opinions
“Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Paul Keating (1944) Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
Referring to Treasurer Peter Costello, ABC Radio interview, March 5, 2007.