We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
Malcolm GladwellThere are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
Malcolm GladwellWhat do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm GladwellThe difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
Malcolm GladwellPeople at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.
Malcolm Gladwell