“The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.”

—  Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell in: Pamela Paul (2014), By the Book: : Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review. p. 238

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