Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius Quotes

“In Mexico, on his grandfather’s farm, dogs were dogs and humans were humans: each knew its place. But in America, dogs were treated like children, and owners had shaken up the hierarchy of human and animal.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius: Part One from What the Dog Saw

“Her idea was that you should be whatever you want to be, including being a blonde.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius: Part One from What the Dog Saw

“does not believe that consumers — even spaghetti lovers — know what they desire if what they desire does not yet exist.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius: Part One from What the Dog Saw

“Here was the downside to Shirley Polykoff’s world. You could get what you wanted by faking it, but then you would never know whether it was you or the bit of fakery that made the difference.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius: Part One from What the Dog Saw

“Taleb’s hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true;”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius: Part One from What the Dog Saw