Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

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.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

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

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.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

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