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“Remember those British schoolchildren who made up answers about Mary’s trip to the seashore? The researchers who ran that experiment did a follow-up study, called “Helping Children Correctly Say ‘I Don’t Know’ to Unanswerable Questions.” Once again, the children were asked a series of questions; but in this case, they were explicitly told to say “I don’t know” if a question was unanswerable. The happy news is that the children were wildly successful at saying “I don’t know” when appropriate, while still getting the other questions right.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Why I Write for Children,” he explained the appeal. “Children read books, not reviews,” he wrote. “They don’t give a hoot about the critics.” And: “When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority.” Best of all—and to the relief of authors everywhere—children “don’t expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“How are you supposed to get everyone to pull in the same direction when they are all pulling primarily for themselves?”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
― Alexandre Dumas