Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of dist….

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from..

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't..

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder..

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money..

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria..

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends..

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness..

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I struct….

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that….

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork tha….

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet..

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or materi….

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do..

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was b….

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ….

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave..

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be brok….

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all..

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions..