When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.