In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world

We aren’t teaching our children to thrive. We teach them to survive. It’s not the same thing. Resilience increases thriving without taking anything away from others.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Pause and remember - Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry - life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.