Father Quote by Stephen J. Dubner

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

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

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

— Stephen J. Dubner

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

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

— Stephen J. Dubner

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

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

— Stephen J. Dubner

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

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

The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

— Stephen J. Dubner

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