An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone..

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new w….

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research..

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

Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second wa….

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

Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this coun….

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot c….

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American k….

Flom had the same experience...He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity..

Emotion is contagious..

The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, a….

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect..

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them..

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can ….

There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money..

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it..

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me..

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness..

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most peop….

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