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"Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long term will be healthy. We have to figure out how to reinvigorate our political institutions and he's demonstrating to us the urgency of that task."
"There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of."
"One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies."
"So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law."
"I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!"
"It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences."
"I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?"
"Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas."
"the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success"
"The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up."
"Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft"
"That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else."
"our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions."
"Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!"
"When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent."
"I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason."
"By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance."
"People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part."
"I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it."
"When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer."