Malcolm Gladwell

“[smart scientist (Climberg??)] and his team built an artificial intelligence system. They fed it the same information that prosecutors had given judges…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn’t right. And what happens as a result?…

— Malcolm Gladwell

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

— Malcolm Gladwell

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don’t mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“that made the unfamiliar familiar.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

— Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

— Malcolm Gladwell

And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find…

— Malcolm Gladwell

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)”

— Malcolm Gladwell

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

— Malcolm Gladwell