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

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

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.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

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