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Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

American - Journalist | August 26, 1963 -

We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

Stephen J. Dubner

People Problems Same Years Big Been

Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.

Stephen J. Dubner

Child Society Think Decisions Help

What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

Stephen J. Dubner

Service Small Problem You Fix Pay

What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more than themes. Themes are boring. Themes are, 'Wool is back,' but ideas are, 'Why is wool back?'

Stephen J. Dubner

Ideas Think Back Boring Storytelling

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

Stephen J. Dubner

Music Science School College Writing

Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and hope they passed it along, which they never did.

Stephen J. Dubner

Hope People Revolution You Never

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

Stephen J. Dubner

Life Adult Whole Been Writer

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Stephen J. Dubner

Small Think Feedback You Know Freak

If I make the mistake of eating breakfast, I want to go back to bed and/or eat again immediately.

Stephen J. Dubner

Mistake Breakfast Eating Back Want

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

Stephen J. Dubner

Time Writing Book Reading Hard

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Stephen J. Dubner

World Problem Solution Complicated

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good Father Silence Parents Painting

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