I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

Voters' memories will fade some.