The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

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.

It’s not reality that makes people happy

That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

People misunderstand me.

No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?