Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

Don't trust, just verify.

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

I'm not interested in serial dating I'd honestly rather be single.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

Dancing came easy to me.

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!

I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

I'm going to tell you, what's good for al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today.