Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

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

Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.