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

I write because I can’t sleep.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.