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.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

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

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.