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.

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

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.

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.

Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.