I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

I write because I can’t sleep.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.