It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.