New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

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.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.