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.

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

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.

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

Don't trust, just verify.

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