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• ‟ There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

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• ‟ It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

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• ‟ Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

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• ‟ Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

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• ‟ I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.

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• ‟ Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

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• ‟ Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

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• ‟ When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

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• ‟ Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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• ‟ I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

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