An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.