Quotes About Levitt

Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.

Norma McCorvey ejerció en la criminalidad un impacto mucho mayor que la suma del control de armas, una economía fuerte y unas estrategias policiales innovadoras.

His best chance of doing so is to engage the public's emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

Mullaney often took the subway to visit the client. His ride sometimes coincided with the end of the school day;

We arrive at the conservative figure of approximately 200,000 women in the regular army of vice.

Peter Leeson, whose research has covered topics like Gypsy law and pirate economics, did just that.

That we think with neither fear nor favor, with neither blind optimism nor sour skepticism. That we think like—ahem—a Freak.

vaunted progress as a major player in the global economy

Anecdotes often represent the lowest form of persuasion.

really don't apply to Apple's culture." Levitt later