When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. — Bill James Copy Share Image
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are… — Bill James Copy Share Image
If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures,… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because… — Bill James Copy Share Image
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like… — Bill James Copy Share Image
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the… — Bill James Copy Share Image
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers? — Bill James Copy Share Image
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only… — Bill James Copy Share Image
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was clear and… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. — Bill James Copy Share Image
“I’m sort of a baseball agnostic; I make it a point never to believe anything just because it is widely known to be so.” — Bill James Copy Share Image
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family,… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Words are useful, sir. That's from the communicating point of view. They come into their own then. When you think about it, even Morse… — Bill James Copy Share Image
We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the… — Bill James Copy Share Image
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice. — Bill James Copy Share Image
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear… — Bill James Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. — Bill James Copy Share Image
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. — Bill James Copy Share Image
