Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.