“Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedb...” — Stephen J. Dubner Quote

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

I believe that people generally want to be what we call good. They want to cooperate with people. They don't want to steal; they don't want to cheat. But everybody has a price. Everybody has an incentive.

Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Being a father, being a husband, you don't always have all the answers. When a problem comes up, we have a discussion. This is life. You have to figure it out. It's not simple. You have to work at getting better.

I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.