Homophily Quotes

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

I'm just more comfortable with people who are like me than the people who are not.

Like associates with like.

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

Facebook's greatest strength - its ability to identify and connect like-minded people - is also a major vulnerability.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.