Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

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.

If life is a joyful serious journey, then peace should be the train and happiness should be the destination.

Belief creates behaviors.

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

I don’t have anything against Jimmy Fallon, I love him, he’s a kick...

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.

If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.