785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants.

And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy.

Defaulting to truth is a problem. It lets spies and con artists roam free.

LeMay always said that the atomic bombs were superfluous. The real work had already been done.

All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They’d have nothing to blog about.

In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites – and.

But let’s not forget that if you are reading this book, then you are a reader and that means you’ve probably never had to think of all the shortcuts and strategies and bypasses that exist to get around reading.

Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play – and by “we” I mean society – in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.