Ben Mezrich quotes:

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.

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.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

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

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

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 have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

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.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I see myself as an entertainer.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

I write because I canâ??t sleep.

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