You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.
Michael LewisWhen something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.
Michael LewisThere was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
Michael LewisAt SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.
Michael Lewis