25 Quotes by David Epstein

mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated

We learn who we are only by living and not before.

We're in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

If we had that again, where somebody won the election without winning the popular vote, the system would be changed in an instant,

I think there is a lot of quality control and quality assurance built into what we're doing here. There is a high degree of comfort for companies to make that leap of faith.

Our goal is to find out how many landowners are interested. They should give us a call. We're looking for willing landowners.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

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