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

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.

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

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

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

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

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.