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.

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.

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.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.