I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
A lot of people are scared of experimentation because they think you have to be scientists, or they're also scared of it because it means that you have to admit that you don't know the answer. A lot of people… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution? — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
