Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and… — 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
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
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution? — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
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
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
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
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
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
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
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
Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say,… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share
