Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

I see myself as an entertainer.

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.