A lot of people are scared of experimentation because they think you have to be scientists, or they’re also scared of it because it means that you have to admit that you don’t know the answer. A lot of people like to assume they know the solution to a problem when they don’t. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
Deflategate. I mean it’s kind of idiotic in one way. On the other hand, look how totally obsessed we are with the fact that the New England Patriots may have taken, I don’t know, a half-pound or a pound square inch of air pressure out of the footballs. We love it. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you’re attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that’s what they’re supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that’s commensurate with that. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
That’s what’s good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
I grew up in – I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most families had guns for hunting, target practice, whatever. The vast majority of people I knew never used their guns for any crime. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
Spielberg may have intended ‘Schindler’s List’ as the opposite of entertainment, but the film grossed $321 million and engaged audiences as only entertainment can, coaxing them to cry and shudder, leaving their hearts more heavy than broken. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution? Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
