Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we dont talk about it intelligently. – Bill James
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports. – Bill James
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. – Bill James
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. – Bill James
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay