Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you’re trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that’s what I like to learn. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that’s really what faith is. There’s a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
A strange thing happens when Spielberg discusses his own work. His degree of self-criticism seems a direct reflection of each film’s box-office performance. You will not catch him complaining that the audience ‘didn’t get’ a film; if it didn’t do well, it generally didn’t deserve to. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
If the day’s writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
If I make the mistake of eating breakfast, I want to go back to bed and/or eat again immediately. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and hope they passed it along, which they never did. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don’t know, and you’d be willing to think like a child, I think it’ll help not only individuals but society at large. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
We’ve been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that’s true? Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
