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

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

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

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

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Don't trust, just verify.

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.