Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

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, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.