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Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.